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Speaker 1: Podcast listeners. This is for you, Welcome to No Dunks,

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Speaker 1: presented by Fan Duel. This is the drop here in

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Speaker 1: the Classic Factory. I'm Testmels with me. It's the man

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Speaker 1: in the middle, Trey Kirby. Hey, hey, o trade just

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Speaker 1: seems like you just woke up and her man making

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Speaker 1: the magic happen. It's JD. Hello, it's going on. JD.

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Speaker 1: Usually I'm the one who's a little sleepy, weepy.

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Speaker 2: I was doing a Brent Berry. Hey, where's my camera?

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Speaker 2: Where's my camera? No, no, I've been awake for a

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Speaker 2: long time. Got up early this morning to just get

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Speaker 2: my shot blocked and turn the ball over for two

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Speaker 2: straight hours. It was a great morning run.

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Speaker 1: Damn.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. It do be like that sometimes, a big.

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Speaker 1: Man blocking your shots because you're.

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Speaker 2: You know, people were kind of just taking their turns.

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Speaker 1: Happened a lot here. I'll make you feel better. I

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Speaker 1: went to a court to shoot five free throws. I

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Speaker 1: just wanted to. I worked out, then I into the

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Speaker 1: court just to hand hit five free throws. It probably

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Speaker 1: took me eighteen shots, I think.

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Speaker 2: Nice.

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Speaker 1: So okay, good, there here you go. We got lots

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Speaker 1: to get to in this show. We're gonna drop some

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Speaker 1: hot playoff takes. Yeah, maybe we got a rapid firefront.

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Speaker 1: Of course, we'll get to the Lakers and Thunder, but

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Speaker 1: let's start with the Calves and Pistons. Piston's got a

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Speaker 1: two zero lead here in round two, Trey taking care

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Speaker 1: of business both games at home. Where do you want

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Speaker 1: to start? Is it the Pistons sight or is it

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Speaker 1: the stinky Cavs site?

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Speaker 2: Well, that's the thing. The big news coming out of

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Speaker 2: this one. What everybody's talking about is the Calves disappointment,

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Speaker 2: the poor play of James Harden and Evan Mobley. First

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Speaker 2: and foremost, I got Lucy football once again. I guaranteed

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Speaker 2: on yesterday's show that he would have more field goals

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Speaker 2: made than assists, and he couldn't do it. Evan Mobley

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Speaker 2: played thirty five minutes, he had one rebound.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, I like, I'd say Harden was way

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Speaker 1: worse than Mobley, though, because Mobley did a good job defensively.

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Speaker 2: Yes, sure, yeah, I agree, But I mean I would

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Speaker 2: say the problem is that the Calves are basically hosting

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Speaker 2: their own disappointing players. Draft. Sure, and they got maybe

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Speaker 2: three guys who would be first round picks. Because I

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Speaker 2: would even throw Donovan Mitchell into the mix despite him

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Speaker 2: having a nice scoring game what he ended up with

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Speaker 2: thirty one points, I believe, but just two for eight

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Speaker 2: in the fourth quarters. These have been two winnable games

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Speaker 2: for the Calves, and Mitchell is shooting four for fourteen

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Speaker 2: in these fourth quarters getting out played by Cad Cunningham.

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Speaker 2: So I'm kind of at the point where I feel

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Speaker 2: bad for the Detroit Pistons because everybody just wants to

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Speaker 2: talk about how bad the Caves are. Even though the

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Speaker 2: Pistons got down three to one against Orlando, have won

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Speaker 2: five straight and are looking like the team we saw

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Speaker 2: during the regular season. In these five straight wins, one

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Speaker 2: hundred and nine points allowed, seventy nine ninety four, one

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Speaker 2: oh one ninety seven. Now three of those are against

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Speaker 2: the Magic, who are offensively challenged for sure, but still

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Speaker 2: they shut him down, especially that game six second half

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Speaker 2: by one hundred and one and ninety seven. For the

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Speaker 2: Calves at least a good off team. We've seen them

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Speaker 2: have great moments in the playoffs in the first two

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Speaker 2: games against Toronto and then since then it's kind of

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Speaker 2: been a disaster. But Danis Jenkins is playing really really well.

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Speaker 2: Duncan Robinson is shooting the ball. Tobias Harris has got

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Speaker 2: to be the oldest player to ever be a breakout

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Speaker 2: star in the playoffs. The guy's nearly thirty four years

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Speaker 2: old and can't stop scoring twenty in a game. I

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Speaker 2: heard Bones say on the broadcast last night he hadn't

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Speaker 2: had twenty in back to back games at all this season.

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Speaker 2: He's got seven straight with twenty or more. Looking vicious

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Speaker 2: down low, like when the Pistons need a bucket, they

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Speaker 2: can rely on Tobias Harris to hit a turnaround jumper.

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Speaker 2: It's unbelievable. So I do feel bad that Detroit is

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Speaker 2: definitely getting like overshadowed by how poor the Caves are

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Speaker 2: playing and how disappointing they've been through the first two

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Speaker 2: games of this series. But Detroit has turned things around completely.

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Speaker 2: They're ferocious on the defensive end, They're getting great performances

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Speaker 2: from Caid, and their support guys are showing up well enough.

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Speaker 1: No doubt. Part of how they start really well is

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Speaker 1: the Caves always get off to a bad start, Yes,

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Speaker 1: and by Jims, a lot of sloppy Jims. James Harden,

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Speaker 1: that's who it's named after. If you haven't watched our show,

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Speaker 1: the sloppy Joe's are the bad turnovers converted to sloppy gyms.

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Speaker 1: They're now sloppy jims. They're bad turnovers. I know he

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Speaker 1: only had four technically yesterday, but I wanted to attribute

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Speaker 1: a couple more to him as well, being that they're

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Speaker 1: in the back court, Jared Allen just throws him a

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Speaker 1: sar Thompson just flying through to grab it at all.

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Speaker 1: That's half a turnover for James Harden. And then in

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Speaker 1: the front court he didn't come and get the ball.

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Speaker 1: They couldn't get him the ball, so then Denn Shruder

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Speaker 1: had to do his thing and turn it over. So

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Speaker 1: half to that one as well. But really dumb ones,

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Speaker 1: I mean the toss ahead to Evan Mobley when you

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Speaker 1: got two guys beside you on a break, on a break,

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Speaker 1: but you try and throw it forty feet ahead. So

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Speaker 1: there's that, Okay, that part is bad of James Harden.

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Speaker 1: There's also the fact that he's just not score weren't

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Speaker 1: all that well, So there's that he's getting picked on defensively.

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Speaker 1: So there's that he's also agitated by everybody. Yeah, so

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Speaker 1: there's that. Yesterday Ron Holland got into his space and

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Speaker 1: he got all bothered. Same with the sar Thompson. It

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Speaker 1: was Duncan Robinson in game one. So the whole package

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Speaker 1: and why I would say James Harden had a worse

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Speaker 1: game than Evan Mobley is just because the whole package. Well,

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Speaker 1: Ivan Mobley did some good things defensively and some good

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Speaker 1: things passing the ball, not scoring, uh, and not rebounding,

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Speaker 1: as you mentioned, that's for sure.

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Speaker 2: One rebound is pretty poor and like, like you're right,

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Speaker 2: maybe Harden should have a couple of more turnovers, but

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Speaker 2: four is like a livable number if you're doing literally

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Speaker 2: anything else. But he wasn't scoring. He took two shots

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Speaker 2: in the second half. He's not getting to the line.

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Speaker 2: He can't really get separation for his step back jumper,

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Speaker 2: which is his go to shot, and if he can't

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Speaker 2: get separation for that, he's having hard times getting by

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Speaker 2: Like Duncan Robinson on drives. You saw that drive thirty

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Speaker 2: three seconds left, kads are down by six, Like if

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Speaker 2: they get a three pointer off, we're talking about a

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Speaker 2: clutch game that maybe they can end up stealing instead,

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Speaker 2: he kind of dribbles into two guys. I know Mitchell

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Speaker 2: took a little credit for that turnover as well, since

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Speaker 2: he said he brought us R. Thompson too close to

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Speaker 2: James Harden. Nonetheless, the turnover goes to Harden, and it's

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Speaker 2: kind of like, why is he the guy that's the

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Speaker 2: it's not like Mitchell was doing anything either. The Cavs

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Speaker 2: went oh for eleven from three in the fourth quarter.

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Speaker 2: They have been there to win both of these first

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Speaker 2: two games. In Detroit had a lead and this one

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Speaker 2: had a lead in game one as well, but they're

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Speaker 2: just falling apart in clutch time and Kate is not.

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Speaker 1: And they're having to dig from a huge hole. So

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Speaker 1: they definitely were leading in the fourth quarter. They led

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Speaker 1: the box scurt and say, well, it's just eleven turnovers.

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Speaker 1: That ain't a lot in total for a team, but

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Speaker 1: they had six in the first quarter, so you get

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Speaker 1: down big. As you could look at all of them,

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Speaker 1: a lot of them definitely on James Harden, but just

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Speaker 1: so many things go poorly to start the game. So

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Speaker 1: they definitely recovered again in both games. But what we

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Speaker 1: saw in round one for the Pistons was that they

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Speaker 1: got off to a bad start for them, and the

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Speaker 1: Calves didn't show up in either of these games. To

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Speaker 1: try and take away a little bit of the aggressiveness

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Speaker 1: and the spirit of the Pistons, who are very very

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Speaker 1: very good defensively, I just think they don't as a

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Speaker 1: caz offense. We'll get away from this calvs team and

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Speaker 1: ripping on them a second, but they don't move the

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Speaker 1: ball enough. I think that you have Yeah, you just watch,

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Speaker 1: that's true, you just watch some of I thought their

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Speaker 1: best possession was in the third court midway through the

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Speaker 1: third quarter, where Evan Mobley gets it sort of on

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Speaker 1: the wing above the three point line. Here comes Donovan

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Speaker 1: Mitchell for a handoff and he gets all the way

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Speaker 1: down low into the paint and fires it to James

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Speaker 1: Harden up top, who makes a different move for him

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Speaker 1: and dribbles hard down the lane immediately doesn't wait, and

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Speaker 1: then he finds Mitchell who's repositioned in the third courts

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Speaker 1: and the corner I should say so. I mean, that's

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Speaker 1: just good offense. I don't like looking at the raw

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Speaker 1: passing numbers all the time. But we'll get to the Lakers. Okay,

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Speaker 1: see game the Lakers passed it sixty more times than

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Speaker 1: Oka se does there did in Game two. I think

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Speaker 1: the Cavs could just do a little more of that,

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Speaker 1: and they had seventy fewer passes than the Lakers did

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Speaker 1: in their game. They literally just don't pass enough, I think,

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Speaker 1: need to see a little bit more of that. We'll

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Speaker 1: get to some hot takes. I think Karl Anthony Town's

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Speaker 1: touching the ball for the New York Knicks is helps them.

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Speaker 1: And you would if you saw Mobley or Jared Allen

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Speaker 1: think that would just help. So the Calves stinky, stinky

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Speaker 1: start to this series. They obviously have to go win

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Speaker 1: in Game three. It's all on Saturday for this team.

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Speaker 1: That's what the series comes down to.

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Speaker 2: Game three is definitely a must win for Cleveland. You

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Speaker 2: can't come back from three to zero. No team has

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Speaker 2: done it yet. And they shot seven for thirty two

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Speaker 2: from three last night, so that means they were for

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Speaker 2: let me do some math here, fourteen for thirty eight

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Speaker 2: in game one, twenty one through seventy through two games,

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Speaker 2: you're only thirty percent from three. For the Calves, they

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Speaker 2: have to be thinking they'll shoot better at home. They

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Speaker 2: haven't lost a home playoff game yet one they're four

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Speaker 2: against Toronto, haven't had one yet against Detroit. So, like

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Speaker 2: I said, they've been there to win both of these games.

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Speaker 2: But it just feels disjointed offensively for the Cavs. It's

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Speaker 2: definitely a year turn, my turn. Once they get into

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Speaker 2: the fourth quarter, Mobley and Allen really become an afterthought.

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Speaker 2: It's like, can Harden get to a step back or

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Speaker 2: maybe a floater or Mitchell making impossible moves. It feels

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Speaker 2: like he's never getting an easy basket in this series,

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Speaker 2: is having to do six euro steps to even get

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Speaker 2: to a floater over a tall guy. Then on the

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Speaker 2: other side, it's like there's not really an answer for

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Speaker 2: Kad Cuttingham on this Caves roster. Like Streus did an

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Speaker 2: ok job at times during Game one. He had a

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Speaker 2: bad game too. Dean Wade is doing his best, but

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Speaker 2: he's not giving you enough offensively that it matters, and

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Speaker 2: he's able to lose kid at s sometimes too, and

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Speaker 2: those are kind of like their best chances.

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Speaker 1: I don't.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if Mobley's capable of that. Like he's

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Speaker 2: got a lot of size on Kke cunning him. He

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Speaker 2: does have good quickness, he's a good defensive player. Maybe

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Speaker 2: Like he's played so many playoff games coming into this,

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Speaker 2: he was a playoff dropper. Yeah, you know, Philadelphia was

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Speaker 2: like looking great while he's doing it when he's not

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, he went down hard. Did you think Mitchell

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Speaker 1: And seeing Tobias Harris being being labeled as a guy

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Speaker 2: doing little things here and there. Very Swiss army knife

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Speaker 2: having him out there as a non shooter, having Jalen

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Speaker 2: there are times when his jumper isn't there. That hasn't

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and again, he doesn't have to do a lot

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Speaker 1: allowing Jalen Durham to be open and mobile blocked him

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Speaker 2: You don't see that very often.

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Speaker 2: it was interesting to hear from Bones. It's like maybe

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Speaker 2: I mean, losing the same way again would be the

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Speaker 2: most disappointing possible end of the season for the Calves,

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Speaker 2: no doubt. Yeah, Bones, I thought nailed. It's like these

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, the first five minutes matters in Game three, yes, because, yeah,

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Speaker 2: It looks so good after the first two games at

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Speaker 2: And it feels like the Calves haven't been able to

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Speaker 1: Three o'clock eastern on Saturday. That's what they get.

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Speaker 2: Sounds early, right, three o'clock eastern on Saturday. Okay, yeah,

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Is it bad for the home team that they

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Speaker 1: Yeah, either way, it was an early start. One. Game

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Speaker 2: Or some some kind of change.

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Speaker 1: We shall see game three. Any other random notes from

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Speaker 2: I like to see Amen Thompson in the crowd supporting

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna watch my twin places in basketball.

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Speaker 2: I always liked that when a brother or a teammate

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Speaker 2: show up to see another game played. It's nice.

431
00:21:03,400 --> 00:21:07,159
Speaker 1: Speaking of the Thompsons, Asar Thompson has knee pads in

432
00:21:07,240 --> 00:21:10,680
Speaker 1: his leg sleeves. I think that's important. Like they're they're

433
00:21:10,720 --> 00:21:13,919
Speaker 1: sewn in, they're just part of the leg sleeve. And

434
00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:15,920
Speaker 1: when he went down on his knees to get that

435
00:21:16,080 --> 00:21:19,320
Speaker 1: steal with thirty seconds left from James Harden, he felt comfortable.

436
00:21:19,359 --> 00:21:22,080
Speaker 1: Dude it because his knees are cushioned now. They're not

437
00:21:22,119 --> 00:21:24,560
Speaker 1: like volleyball pat knees. They're just little ones you can

438
00:21:24,600 --> 00:21:28,280
Speaker 1: see there. I think they should be a part of

439
00:21:29,080 --> 00:21:31,640
Speaker 1: every leg sleeves.

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Speaker 2: Be part of every leg sleeve. Maybe the flexibility is

441
00:21:33,680 --> 00:21:35,639
Speaker 2: a problem, but it really sets a tone. From a

442
00:21:35,720 --> 00:21:38,520
Speaker 2: legs standpoint, I'm willing to go to the ground.

443
00:21:38,359 --> 00:21:40,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, because my knees are supported.

444
00:21:40,800 --> 00:21:43,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, James Harden ain't wearing knee sleeves, that's for sure.

445
00:21:43,960 --> 00:21:45,879
Speaker 2: But I'm thinking he's gonna come through in Game three, cho,

446
00:21:47,960 --> 00:21:50,080
Speaker 2: I think this is the one. This is the one

447
00:21:50,119 --> 00:21:54,080
Speaker 2: for Harden. Look, it's only been a quarter of his

448
00:21:54,359 --> 00:21:58,040
Speaker 2: career playoff games that he has more turnovers than goals,

449
00:21:58,480 --> 00:22:02,359
Speaker 2: literally a quarter, which means seventy five percent of the

450
00:22:02,359 --> 00:22:05,439
Speaker 2: time he has more makes than turnovers. And I'm saying

451
00:22:05,560 --> 00:22:10,480
Speaker 2: Game three guaranteed James Harden more field goals than turnovers.

452
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Speaker 2: We heard it here.

453
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Speaker 1: You're a crazy man.

454
00:22:12,200 --> 00:22:15,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm guaranteeing it every game until it finally happened.

455
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Speaker 1: It is even surprising to me now, even though we've

456
00:22:19,560 --> 00:22:22,240
Speaker 1: talked about it for a good twenty minutes, to know

457
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Speaker 1: that the four turnovers were more than the amount of

458
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Speaker 1: field goals he hit. And I watched him out there.

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Speaker 2: Exactly exactly like, you can live with four turnovers if

460
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Speaker 2: you go in for twelve, you know, not three for thirteen.

461
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Speaker 1: Totally other random notes, I want to fly through the

462
00:22:35,480 --> 00:22:38,320
Speaker 1: kid block on Dennis Shruder where his follow through hit

463
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Speaker 1: Struder look like he hit him right in the eyeballs

464
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Speaker 1: and Struder was trying to help his eyes afterward. I mean,

465
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Speaker 1: that was that was tough. But a clean block on

466
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Speaker 1: the fall through is just a fall through. So I

467
00:22:52,040 --> 00:22:54,399
Speaker 1: thought that was a good non call. I thought the

468
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Speaker 1: camera shot, I want to talk about production going into

469
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Speaker 1: the second quarter. It started in the raft. It was

470
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Speaker 1: a drone started in the rafters, and the rafters have

471
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Speaker 1: those blue lights within it, so the lighting looks cool

472
00:23:08,200 --> 00:23:11,760
Speaker 1: in Detroit. So drone shots don't always look awesome, but

473
00:23:11,840 --> 00:23:16,000
Speaker 1: that one was cool and it came down and then

474
00:23:16,040 --> 00:23:19,960
Speaker 1: you saw the video board come into frame, so the

475
00:23:20,080 --> 00:23:22,359
Speaker 1: video board looked cool from that angle and then it

476
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Speaker 1: zoomed in. I just thought that was cool. I'll see

477
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Speaker 1: a cool drone shot. Nice shot, Yeah, I love a

478
00:23:29,160 --> 00:23:31,280
Speaker 1: cool drum shot of the drone is definitely caught in

479
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Speaker 1: camera a couple of times.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they were nice with the cameras last night, because

481
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Speaker 2: I mean, I'm thinking of the Lakers game when who

482
00:23:38,480 --> 00:23:43,480
Speaker 2: was the sideline reporter. Maybe it was Christina Pinks in

483
00:23:43,520 --> 00:23:47,320
Speaker 2: the second one where she started like the like her

484
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Speaker 2: stand up, yeah, talking about Luka Doncic, and they went

485
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Speaker 2: from her to the bench where Luca was over there,

486
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Speaker 2: like a walk and talk. I thought that was pretty

487
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Speaker 2: smooth as well.

488
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Speaker 1: Very smooth. Last thing for me, Dan Jenkins. We always

489
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Speaker 1: call him Dennis Jenkins. And that's when one of our

490
00:24:03,520 --> 00:24:06,800
Speaker 1: fans said, hey, hey, you go to their web page

491
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Speaker 1: and they have a pronunciation guide where each player says

492
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Speaker 1: his own name. It's a two second clip and it's

493
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Speaker 1: Danis Jenkins, you know, kind of like he's from Denmark.

494
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Speaker 1: Although when you listen to his clip, he says so

495
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Speaker 1: quickly it's kind of hard to tell if it's Danis

496
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Speaker 1: or Danis. But either way, Mark volmar Our fan here

497
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Speaker 1: on on YouTube, thanks for the heads up.

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Speaker 2: It doesn't appear to be Danish.

499
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Speaker 1: It does appear to be.

500
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Speaker 2: They started saying Danis at the beginning of the season,

501
00:24:36,280 --> 00:24:40,359
Speaker 2: even the Pistons, but the Pistons broadcasters. As he rose

502
00:24:40,400 --> 00:24:43,360
Speaker 2: in status and established himself as a player, they got

503
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Speaker 2: with the program Denis Jenkins. And now it's filtering down

504
00:24:45,880 --> 00:24:47,880
Speaker 2: to the national broadcast. You're hearing it more and more,

505
00:24:47,920 --> 00:24:51,239
Speaker 2: his correct pronunciation of a name you'll never confuse him

506
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Speaker 2: for Janis Denkins again, because I've never met a woman

507
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Speaker 2: named Janis.

508
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Speaker 1: No no, that is Oh, that's spark think something Janus

509
00:25:04,200 --> 00:25:08,240
Speaker 1: no no, oh, who might It's just sounds like another name.

510
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Speaker 1: But it's not a Danis, it's not a it's not

511
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Speaker 1: a genus. I'll get to it later. Do every does

512
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Speaker 1: every single page on the NBA website have a pronunciation

513
00:25:20,400 --> 00:25:23,760
Speaker 1: guiy for for all their names, like there's our little

514
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Speaker 1: audio clips.

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Speaker 2: I don't know. That's not a question that I know

516
00:25:26,200 --> 00:25:26,800
Speaker 2: the answer to you.

517
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Speaker 1: I'm getting into, definitely getting it because it's usually it's hey,

518
00:25:30,040 --> 00:25:34,439
Speaker 1: got a basketball basketball referencing. You see the fanatics, but

519
00:25:35,280 --> 00:25:36,000
Speaker 1: some of them don't.

520
00:25:36,080 --> 00:25:36,760
Speaker 2: Some of them don't.

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Speaker 1: Dennis Jenkins is not well get That's why he's Danis

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Speaker 1: Jenkins education. All right, let's get to the Lakers and

523
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Speaker 1: the Thunder. What do you think about this one? A

524
00:25:49,880 --> 00:25:51,080
Speaker 1: thunder take care of business in the.

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Speaker 2: End, thundertake care different.

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Speaker 1: It was different.

527
00:25:54,280 --> 00:25:54,960
Speaker 2: It was different.

528
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Speaker 1: I know in the chats people were saying, like our

529
00:25:58,359 --> 00:26:01,800
Speaker 1: own personal chats and people saying, whoa the Lakers?

530
00:26:01,880 --> 00:26:02,240
Speaker 2: WHOA?

531
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Speaker 1: They're doing it because they were up in the third quarter.

532
00:26:04,920 --> 00:26:06,359
Speaker 2: They were up in the third quarter. They were up

533
00:26:06,359 --> 00:26:08,439
Speaker 2: at halftime, but then you're like, wait a second. They

534
00:26:08,480 --> 00:26:11,400
Speaker 2: went seven for sixteen from three. That's awesome. Shake kills

535
00:26:11,400 --> 00:26:14,000
Speaker 2: just alexandri not having a great first quarter or great

536
00:26:14,040 --> 00:26:18,000
Speaker 2: first half. Lakers up one, that wasn't good. They got

537
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Speaker 2: another file from Jake Kills with Alexandria. I had three

538
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Speaker 2: in the first half. He picks up his four fourth

539
00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:25,240
Speaker 2: like ninety seconds in. Yeah, he has to go to

540
00:26:25,320 --> 00:26:28,000
Speaker 2: the bench, and then the Thunder ripped off a twenty

541
00:26:28,280 --> 00:26:31,760
Speaker 2: two to four run. They were down five when Shay

542
00:26:32,119 --> 00:26:35,280
Speaker 2: subs out, up thirteen when he comes back and it

543
00:26:35,359 --> 00:26:38,959
Speaker 2: was basically Aj Mitchell and Chet aj Mitchell. This is

544
00:26:38,960 --> 00:26:41,080
Speaker 2: incredible the way he has been able to step into

545
00:26:41,080 --> 00:26:44,040
Speaker 2: the number two trigger man roll for the Thunder with

546
00:26:44,160 --> 00:26:48,159
Speaker 2: Jaylen Williams absence. This is a game that easily the

547
00:26:48,200 --> 00:26:51,159
Speaker 2: Thunder could have lost with Shay being in fouled trouble.

548
00:26:51,200 --> 00:26:54,520
Speaker 2: The Lakers actually actually shooting the ball pretty well, and

549
00:26:54,640 --> 00:26:57,840
Speaker 2: instead a guy that's in his second year in the

550
00:26:57,960 --> 00:27:02,480
Speaker 2: NBA went to work boring setting up teammates. Chet Holmgren

551
00:27:02,520 --> 00:27:05,719
Speaker 2: is playing an awesome series so far. His size, his

552
00:27:05,760 --> 00:27:07,960
Speaker 2: shooting has been a real thorn in the side for

553
00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:10,399
Speaker 2: the Lakers. I think the size in general for the

554
00:27:10,440 --> 00:27:14,680
Speaker 2: thunder between Hartenstein and Chet is really giving the Lakers problems.

555
00:27:14,720 --> 00:27:17,000
Speaker 2: You throw in Jared McCain getting dusted off. He played

556
00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:20,159
Speaker 2: twenty two total minutes in Round one, and he's got

557
00:27:20,320 --> 00:27:22,760
Speaker 2: how many threes through two games? Here he's got seven

558
00:27:22,800 --> 00:27:25,320
Speaker 2: threes I think in two straight in two games. He

559
00:27:25,359 --> 00:27:27,840
Speaker 2: looks like a great player as well. Meanwhile, the Lakers

560
00:27:28,240 --> 00:27:31,280
Speaker 2: didn't have Jared Vanderbilt, so they threw out a du Tiero.

561
00:27:32,160 --> 00:27:35,160
Speaker 2: This is the levels of teams we're talking about here. Yes,

562
00:27:36,200 --> 00:27:38,440
Speaker 2: this could maybe be a competitive series of Shaye didn't

563
00:27:38,480 --> 00:27:41,280
Speaker 2: play the entire time, and I would still probably take

564
00:27:41,280 --> 00:27:41,760
Speaker 2: the thunder.

565
00:27:42,560 --> 00:27:45,959
Speaker 1: It was incredible that his team won the minutes on

566
00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:50,159
Speaker 1: the bench for Shay by eighteen. Yeah, that is that

567
00:27:50,320 --> 00:27:54,120
Speaker 1: is something. Okay sees bench beat the Lakers bench, even

568
00:27:54,160 --> 00:27:56,119
Speaker 1: if the road we're playing a due theory out now.

569
00:27:56,160 --> 00:27:57,800
Speaker 1: I think he's in a due theo for talking.

570
00:27:58,320 --> 00:27:58,879
Speaker 2: You're right, You're right.

571
00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:00,960
Speaker 1: Either way, he's.

572
00:28:00,800 --> 00:28:02,880
Speaker 2: Got he's got to start playing better so he gets

573
00:28:02,920 --> 00:28:05,600
Speaker 2: the Danis Jenkins dream Man zero.

574
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Speaker 1: SI you're yeah, yeah, Like I'm good at pronunciations. I

575
00:28:09,840 --> 00:28:14,320
Speaker 1: call Donovan Mitchell, Davion Mitchell, and when I call him

576
00:28:14,359 --> 00:28:18,720
Speaker 1: last time, Aarren Darren, whoa man? Anyways, Okaysee's bench beat

577
00:28:18,720 --> 00:28:22,040
Speaker 1: the Lakers bench forty eight twenty. And you know there's

578
00:28:22,040 --> 00:28:25,320
Speaker 1: a there's a whole we need Luca thing that's totally true.

579
00:28:27,240 --> 00:28:30,080
Speaker 1: But it also happened in game one, so it's it's

580
00:28:30,119 --> 00:28:34,320
Speaker 1: this ongoing thing. Even with Vanderbilt playing. I thought, yeah,

581
00:28:34,359 --> 00:28:37,840
Speaker 1: the Lakers overall played a pretty good offensive game to

582
00:28:37,880 --> 00:28:41,400
Speaker 1: do what they did to score over on it. He got. Yeah,

583
00:28:41,480 --> 00:28:43,680
Speaker 1: even if there were twenty turnovers, I thought they were

584
00:28:43,720 --> 00:28:46,840
Speaker 1: playing well. They were moving it and so they're whipping

585
00:28:46,880 --> 00:28:49,120
Speaker 1: it around. They could have shot the three ball better

586
00:28:49,240 --> 00:28:51,120
Speaker 1: because they were moving it around and there were some

587
00:28:51,240 --> 00:28:55,160
Speaker 1: open shots. Sure, not everyone's going to be Ruyatchimura out there,

588
00:28:55,720 --> 00:28:58,600
Speaker 1: that dude. I mean, just we got to note it.

589
00:28:58,600 --> 00:29:00,880
Speaker 1: I know they're saying it on the broadcas cast. He's

590
00:29:00,920 --> 00:29:05,360
Speaker 1: four of seven from three in this playoffs, he's fifty

591
00:29:05,400 --> 00:29:08,240
Speaker 1: seven percent from three, But overall in his career, he's

592
00:29:08,280 --> 00:29:11,640
Speaker 1: fifty one percent from three seventy two for one forty one.

593
00:29:11,800 --> 00:29:15,000
Speaker 1: That's the highest three point percentage in NBA Playoffs history

594
00:29:15,040 --> 00:29:16,000
Speaker 1: for a three point shooter.

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Speaker 2: It's pretty amazing. Actually, yeah, playoff really yeah, real back.

596
00:29:19,760 --> 00:29:22,000
Speaker 1: In forty threes. But AJ Mitchell on the other side,

597
00:29:22,240 --> 00:29:25,160
Speaker 1: definitely got a recent ten looking pretty good.

598
00:29:27,520 --> 00:29:29,680
Speaker 2: You think maybe like he hit the beach during the

599
00:29:29,800 --> 00:29:31,840
Speaker 2: layoff that they had between round one and round two.

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Speaker 1: Yes, maybe, yeah, now that you say that, there's so

601
00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:36,640
Speaker 1: much time off. Yeah, for sure. How good he was

602
00:29:36,720 --> 00:29:40,680
Speaker 1: offensively the footwork inside the threes. He played some defense

603
00:29:40,760 --> 00:29:43,120
Speaker 1: on Marcus Smart. You could see shay as he had

604
00:29:43,160 --> 00:29:45,440
Speaker 1: to go to the benches not in the way. Wow,

605
00:29:45,560 --> 00:29:48,360
Speaker 1: that guy. That guy's really grown the footwork in there.

606
00:29:48,520 --> 00:29:51,560
Speaker 1: They all work on the same in the in the

607
00:29:51,560 --> 00:29:54,680
Speaker 1: same parts of the court, and they admire each other.

608
00:29:54,720 --> 00:29:57,240
Speaker 1: So he did a really great job. Sam Presty, you

609
00:29:57,320 --> 00:29:59,640
Speaker 1: did a really great job. I always look this up

610
00:29:59,640 --> 00:30:01,520
Speaker 1: because I I think it's it's one of the best

611
00:30:01,520 --> 00:30:03,760
Speaker 1: contracts in the league. He's in the first year of

612
00:30:03,760 --> 00:30:06,280
Speaker 1: his three year, eight point seven million dollar contract. Guys

613
00:30:06,320 --> 00:30:11,719
Speaker 1: getting paid under three million per so AJJ. Mitchell, it's ridiculous.

614
00:30:11,760 --> 00:30:14,120
Speaker 1: That's why he was part of my vote for Executive

615
00:30:14,200 --> 00:30:14,800
Speaker 1: of the Year.

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00:30:14,920 --> 00:30:16,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it sounded crazy when you said it, because

617
00:30:17,640 --> 00:30:19,000
Speaker 2: they just brought everybody back.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but he didn't play last year.

619
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Speaker 2: True. I mean he got spot minutes in the in

620
00:30:24,520 --> 00:30:27,840
Speaker 2: the finals, but he was dealing with injury. But I'm

621
00:30:27,880 --> 00:30:31,760
Speaker 2: watching these guys come in Jared McCain, a trade deadline acquisition,

622
00:30:32,080 --> 00:30:35,880
Speaker 2: Jalen Williams with the I who is their third big.

623
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Speaker 2: He's awesome when he comes it. Had a big four

624
00:30:38,200 --> 00:30:40,480
Speaker 2: point play in this one. I'm like, yeah, I mean,

625
00:30:40,760 --> 00:30:43,080
Speaker 2: Sam Presty, even though he built this team two years ago,

626
00:30:43,480 --> 00:30:46,360
Speaker 2: this is still the team and they're still clearly clearly

627
00:30:46,520 --> 00:30:48,960
Speaker 2: the best team, to the point where I kind of

628
00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:51,960
Speaker 2: agree with this. Here Berto Eats here in the stream,

629
00:30:51,960 --> 00:30:55,680
Speaker 2: team says, is aj Mitchell the next Brunson or Harden?

630
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Speaker 2: A guy who's like a bench player who could then

631
00:30:59,600 --> 00:31:01,840
Speaker 2: be the number one guy for a team. I would

632
00:31:01,840 --> 00:31:03,880
Speaker 2: probably have him more on the Brunson level than the

633
00:31:03,920 --> 00:31:06,640
Speaker 2: Harden level, but I don't think it's super far fetched.

634
00:31:06,840 --> 00:31:09,120
Speaker 2: It is going to be a question for the Thunder

635
00:31:09,160 --> 00:31:12,400
Speaker 2: when he actually gets to his second contract, like a

636
00:31:12,400 --> 00:31:15,400
Speaker 2: real big contract. They will have other players that they're

637
00:31:15,440 --> 00:31:17,320
Speaker 2: paying as well, and they're gonna want to find a

638
00:31:17,320 --> 00:31:19,720
Speaker 2: way to keep this guy around. And teams around the

639
00:31:19,760 --> 00:31:22,880
Speaker 2: league should be getting their ducks in a row to

640
00:31:22,960 --> 00:31:25,400
Speaker 2: at least make a giant offer on a guy like

641
00:31:25,440 --> 00:31:27,960
Speaker 2: aj Mitchell because it feels like he could lead a

642
00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:29,920
Speaker 2: team the way he's able to do this in the

643
00:31:29,960 --> 00:31:31,360
Speaker 2: playoffs his first time around.

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00:31:31,640 --> 00:31:35,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, the Jalen Brunson comparison is fitting because they're both

645
00:31:35,040 --> 00:31:38,560
Speaker 1: second round picks and they both weren't extremely hot to

646
00:31:38,680 --> 00:31:42,400
Speaker 1: start their careers as a number one guy at all.

647
00:31:42,480 --> 00:31:44,680
Speaker 1: People thought that Jalen Brunson was overpaid when he went

648
00:31:44,720 --> 00:31:46,480
Speaker 1: from the MAVs to the Knicks, and that's when he

649
00:31:46,520 --> 00:31:49,720
Speaker 1: took off. I can't put him at that level yet,

650
00:31:49,840 --> 00:31:54,400
Speaker 1: but I definitely would put him more in that spot

651
00:31:54,480 --> 00:31:57,440
Speaker 1: than the James Harden spot. But a good comparison. Berto.

652
00:31:57,720 --> 00:31:59,680
Speaker 2: I like it, Berto, And of course they are all

653
00:31:59,720 --> 00:32:02,720
Speaker 2: left hand so that helped. It's really nice.

654
00:32:02,800 --> 00:32:05,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, And so it was Lebron because he did that

655
00:32:05,120 --> 00:32:06,720
Speaker 1: nice switch last night.

656
00:32:06,800 --> 00:32:08,760
Speaker 2: Right now was cool. That was very cool.

657
00:32:08,840 --> 00:32:12,640
Speaker 1: The guy was phenomenal last night. Again, I thought the

658
00:32:12,720 --> 00:32:15,400
Speaker 1: Lakers were playing well pretty much.

659
00:32:16,640 --> 00:32:18,320
Speaker 2: It does feel like they're playing about as well as

660
00:32:18,320 --> 00:32:20,880
Speaker 2: they can and they have been in these games in

661
00:32:20,920 --> 00:32:23,080
Speaker 2: the second half and still somehow the thunder end up

662
00:32:23,120 --> 00:32:25,600
Speaker 2: covering these gigantic points spreads we talk about every time,

663
00:32:26,600 --> 00:32:29,680
Speaker 2: like how they're just blowing it out. In the end,

664
00:32:29,880 --> 00:32:33,400
Speaker 2: Reeves was better last night, thirty one points, his first

665
00:32:33,440 --> 00:32:35,760
Speaker 2: real good game of the playoffs. There were times, certainly

666
00:32:35,760 --> 00:32:37,920
Speaker 2: when he looked sped up. He finished with five turnovers.

667
00:32:37,960 --> 00:32:40,920
Speaker 2: That's a sign getting him back rolling is important if

668
00:32:40,920 --> 00:32:43,800
Speaker 2: they're going to steal a game. Maybe they shoot well

669
00:32:44,680 --> 00:32:48,080
Speaker 2: from three for an entire game. Playing back in LA

670
00:32:48,240 --> 00:32:50,400
Speaker 2: But the big news coming out of this one for

671
00:32:50,480 --> 00:32:54,120
Speaker 2: sure was Yeah, the Thunder looked great, but a lot

672
00:32:54,120 --> 00:32:57,880
Speaker 2: of referee talk last night. Had a big huddle at

673
00:32:57,880 --> 00:33:00,640
Speaker 2: the end of the game, the Lakers all going confronting

674
00:33:00,720 --> 00:33:04,200
Speaker 2: John Goebel and his friends. Meanwhile the Thunder are literally

675
00:33:04,240 --> 00:33:06,720
Speaker 2: standing over to the side watching and laughing at the

676
00:33:06,760 --> 00:33:10,560
Speaker 2: Lakers complain how hard they were complaining. And look, everybody

677
00:33:10,600 --> 00:33:13,240
Speaker 2: had stuff to say postgame, except for Lebron. He's like,

678
00:33:13,800 --> 00:33:17,160
Speaker 2: we lost, he didn't care. Lebron isn't playing the Thunder

679
00:33:17,320 --> 00:33:22,320
Speaker 2: criticism game. But JJ Reddick was for Lebron's behalf and

680
00:33:22,400 --> 00:33:25,800
Speaker 2: for Austin Reeve's behalf, and then Reeves obviously was very,

681
00:33:25,880 --> 00:33:28,760
Speaker 2: very upset with the way the officiating went down. Last night,

682
00:33:28,800 --> 00:33:31,480
Speaker 2: and it was a weird game. There was a lot

683
00:33:31,520 --> 00:33:35,800
Speaker 2: of weird stuff happening from a flagrant standpoint, from calls

684
00:33:35,800 --> 00:33:37,800
Speaker 2: that were going one way or another. I was laughing

685
00:33:37,880 --> 00:33:40,840
Speaker 2: that every time John Goebel went to the video review

686
00:33:40,960 --> 00:33:43,800
Speaker 2: it went against the Thunder. So Thunder fans are upset

687
00:33:43,920 --> 00:33:47,600
Speaker 2: losing every challenge, it felt like. But the Lakers were very,

688
00:33:47,680 --> 00:33:50,040
Speaker 2: very upset with the way this game was officiated. And

689
00:33:50,760 --> 00:33:53,880
Speaker 2: that's what the Thunder do to everybody. They foll you

690
00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:56,840
Speaker 2: a lot. It ain't gonna get called all the time,

691
00:33:57,000 --> 00:33:59,960
Speaker 2: especially in the playoffs, but they're able to keep their

692
00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:02,200
Speaker 2: heads because you know, they're in the calls, and no

693
00:34:02,320 --> 00:34:04,640
Speaker 2: other team that they play is able to keep their heads.

694
00:34:04,760 --> 00:34:07,680
Speaker 2: They get so obsessed with the way the referee is

695
00:34:07,720 --> 00:34:10,120
Speaker 2: going down that they lose track of the game and

696
00:34:10,160 --> 00:34:11,600
Speaker 2: take themselves out of it. At times.

697
00:34:12,480 --> 00:34:14,360
Speaker 1: He slipped in that they get the calls, but they

698
00:34:14,400 --> 00:34:16,280
Speaker 1: don't get all the They don't get all the calls,

699
00:34:16,600 --> 00:34:18,480
Speaker 1: and I'm not trying to go out and defend them.

700
00:34:18,680 --> 00:34:21,000
Speaker 2: They get the non calls. That's that's the big thing,

701
00:34:21,040 --> 00:34:23,239
Speaker 2: is that they don't get called for the files that

702
00:34:23,280 --> 00:34:25,160
Speaker 2: you're like, wait a second, how is that not a file.

703
00:34:25,760 --> 00:34:28,200
Speaker 1: Well sometimes Shay Goes went to the floor in this

704
00:34:28,239 --> 00:34:32,120
Speaker 1: game and he didn't get a call and she literally

705
00:34:32,280 --> 00:34:34,880
Speaker 1: was on the floor, and so there's that. And sometimes

706
00:34:34,920 --> 00:34:38,000
Speaker 1: you'll see a chat. He flopped in the first half,

707
00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:40,760
Speaker 1: stand Ban Gundy on the call saying, yet that's a flop.

708
00:34:40,840 --> 00:34:42,919
Speaker 1: Don't get that call. Don't get that call. The video

709
00:34:42,960 --> 00:34:45,440
Speaker 1: review came through, as you said, a lot of them

710
00:34:45,440 --> 00:34:48,040
Speaker 1: went to the Lakers side. He did not get the

711
00:34:48,080 --> 00:34:51,200
Speaker 1: call in that case. So I was starting to make

712
00:34:51,239 --> 00:34:55,279
Speaker 1: notes and say, whoa, this is exactly going against what

713
00:34:55,280 --> 00:34:56,919
Speaker 1: all the people are saying that the thunder a getting

714
00:34:56,960 --> 00:34:59,040
Speaker 1: all the calls. But then you know Alex Cruzell flop,

715
00:34:59,080 --> 00:35:01,479
Speaker 1: he got a call, and so the calls of swaying

716
00:35:01,560 --> 00:35:04,200
Speaker 1: the other way to uh for sure. But you're right,

717
00:35:04,239 --> 00:35:06,759
Speaker 1: the Lakers were extremely med throughout this game. Jaji Reddick

718
00:35:06,800 --> 00:35:09,960
Speaker 1: got into it with Ben Taylor. I wish I just

719
00:35:09,960 --> 00:35:12,560
Speaker 1: thought Ben Taylor was a musician, but I can't, man,

720
00:35:12,640 --> 00:35:15,680
Speaker 1: he's also a referee. Because I'm always.

721
00:35:15,360 --> 00:35:18,839
Speaker 2: Looking right at YouTuber. Is he well thinking basketball? That's

722
00:35:19,200 --> 00:35:22,800
Speaker 2: that's Ben Taylor. That's that's different. Yeah, different, Ben. He's

723
00:35:22,840 --> 00:35:25,920
Speaker 2: a liked basketball. Ben not not referee Ben.

724
00:35:26,200 --> 00:35:28,400
Speaker 1: Jj Reck was right in his face. And John Goebbles.

725
00:35:28,400 --> 00:35:30,160
Speaker 1: He had stand Van on the on the broadcast saying

726
00:35:30,239 --> 00:35:34,640
Speaker 1: John Goebbels getting getting ripped by the fans. This is okay,

727
00:35:34,680 --> 00:35:37,560
Speaker 1: see fans, we're ripping them. The refs, you suck. Refs,

728
00:35:37,560 --> 00:35:41,000
Speaker 1: you suck, And stan Van said, John's a nice guy.

729
00:35:41,400 --> 00:35:44,239
Speaker 1: You just want to literally wanted to defend the guy.

730
00:35:44,600 --> 00:35:47,719
Speaker 1: He's a nice guy. Many he's got a family. The

731
00:35:47,719 --> 00:35:51,440
Speaker 1: referees cannot get it right for either side because, as

732
00:35:51,440 --> 00:35:54,560
Speaker 1: you said, so you're thinking, you think that the Lakers,

733
00:35:54,840 --> 00:35:58,440
Speaker 1: the opposing team from the Thunder side, don't get the

734
00:35:58,480 --> 00:36:01,240
Speaker 1: non calls, or the Thunder get the non calls.

735
00:36:01,360 --> 00:36:03,480
Speaker 2: Every team the Thunder plays against thinks they're playing eight

736
00:36:03,560 --> 00:36:03,919
Speaker 2: on five.

737
00:36:04,480 --> 00:36:07,319
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what they think.

738
00:36:08,480 --> 00:36:10,960
Speaker 2: But I mean, like Lebron has taken five free throws

739
00:36:11,000 --> 00:36:13,799
Speaker 2: I think in two games. JJ says he's got the

740
00:36:13,800 --> 00:36:16,279
Speaker 2: worst whistle of any superstar ever. That was crazy that

741
00:36:16,320 --> 00:36:18,400
Speaker 2: he didn't get a continuation on the one where he

742
00:36:18,480 --> 00:36:20,600
Speaker 2: hit the jumper after getting bumped and he picked up

743
00:36:20,600 --> 00:36:23,719
Speaker 2: the ball. Even stan Ban Gundy's like, that should absolutely

744
00:36:23,760 --> 00:36:28,239
Speaker 2: be a continuation, But I don't know the Thunder bring

745
00:36:28,320 --> 00:36:31,440
Speaker 2: a level of intensity and physicality from the jump. Every

746
00:36:31,440 --> 00:36:33,759
Speaker 2: single player on their team does it. Some guys are

747
00:36:33,760 --> 00:36:36,480
Speaker 2: more egregious about it than others. But it puts the

748
00:36:36,520 --> 00:36:38,480
Speaker 2: onus on the referees to not be able to call

749
00:36:38,520 --> 00:36:42,120
Speaker 2: everything the entire time. So that's just how it ends up,

750
00:36:42,160 --> 00:36:47,720
Speaker 2: and eventually it gets under the skin of whoever they're playing,

751
00:36:47,840 --> 00:36:50,600
Speaker 2: in this case the Lakers. Meanwhile, the thunder take after

752
00:36:50,600 --> 00:36:53,640
Speaker 2: Shay's personality. They are just so even key. They're rarely

753
00:36:53,640 --> 00:36:58,360
Speaker 2: getting rattled, but other teams are getting rattled. And I

754
00:36:58,400 --> 00:37:00,919
Speaker 2: don't know, I give a lot of credit to Lebron

755
00:37:00,960 --> 00:37:02,400
Speaker 2: being like, that's not the reason we lost, And I

756
00:37:02,440 --> 00:37:04,480
Speaker 2: don't think that's the reason the Lakers lost. But the

757
00:37:04,520 --> 00:37:07,080
Speaker 2: reason that they have problems with it is the mental

758
00:37:07,160 --> 00:37:09,440
Speaker 2: game overwhelms them for sure, and it takes them out

759
00:37:09,440 --> 00:37:11,600
Speaker 2: of the game. It feels like, not only do we

760
00:37:11,680 --> 00:37:14,160
Speaker 2: have a disadvantage because we're playing on the road, it

761
00:37:14,160 --> 00:37:17,920
Speaker 2: feels like we're playing against a conspiracy in a conspiracy.

762
00:37:17,960 --> 00:37:20,480
Speaker 2: But that's certainly what it felt like for Austin Breeves

763
00:37:20,520 --> 00:37:22,520
Speaker 2: last night. That's what it felt like for JJ Reddick

764
00:37:22,560 --> 00:37:24,080
Speaker 2: last night, and that's what it feels like for every

765
00:37:24,160 --> 00:37:26,839
Speaker 2: team that plays against the Thunder, so is everybody lying

766
00:37:26,920 --> 00:37:27,080
Speaker 2: or what.

767
00:37:28,600 --> 00:37:32,160
Speaker 1: Well, in a game where the Lakers had five fewer

768
00:37:32,200 --> 00:37:34,400
Speaker 1: free throws in the Thunder, I don't think it was

769
00:37:35,280 --> 00:37:39,920
Speaker 1: that there were calls missed for the Lakers, but at

770
00:37:39,920 --> 00:37:42,479
Speaker 1: the same time, the rest just didn't do an incredible drump.

771
00:37:42,480 --> 00:37:46,560
Speaker 1: I think the flops in general, when they're called, are

772
00:37:46,600 --> 00:37:49,120
Speaker 1: a problem, and I think that will be something that's

773
00:37:49,120 --> 00:37:52,919
Speaker 1: looked at in the offseason. The Thunder played very good

774
00:37:52,960 --> 00:37:56,759
Speaker 1: positional basketball. They get in the way and they hit

775
00:37:56,840 --> 00:38:00,680
Speaker 1: the ground and it's called quite often. Is it their

776
00:38:00,719 --> 00:38:05,759
Speaker 1: fault that that gets called? No, they're just doing what

777
00:38:05,760 --> 00:38:07,959
Speaker 1: they're supposed to be doing, and so I think that's

778
00:38:08,120 --> 00:38:10,000
Speaker 1: a point of emphasis for the referees. It is annoying

779
00:38:10,040 --> 00:38:14,440
Speaker 1: to watch, no doubt, so I think that hopefully they

780
00:38:14,440 --> 00:38:16,720
Speaker 1: don't call those as much like I brought. I mentioned

781
00:38:16,719 --> 00:38:19,520
Speaker 1: the Alex Crusi one where Lebron is literally running up

782
00:38:19,560 --> 00:38:22,880
Speaker 1: the floor and Crusoe gets in his way sort of

783
00:38:22,920 --> 00:38:27,040
Speaker 1: by the free throw line, and that's not positional basketball.

784
00:38:27,080 --> 00:38:29,319
Speaker 1: It's just it's just getting in the way, you know.

785
00:38:29,640 --> 00:38:31,520
Speaker 1: But you hit the floor, if you fall, you get

786
00:38:31,520 --> 00:38:33,880
Speaker 1: to call a lot of the times, and that's not fun.

787
00:38:34,160 --> 00:38:37,840
Speaker 1: So I don't think anyone's lying. I just think they're

788
00:38:37,560 --> 00:38:40,040
Speaker 1: They push it. They push the rules as far as

789
00:38:40,080 --> 00:38:41,839
Speaker 1: they can. The rules need to be readjusted.

790
00:38:42,080 --> 00:38:44,760
Speaker 2: Coming into the series, even JJ was like, drawing fouls

791
00:38:44,840 --> 00:38:47,560
Speaker 2: is a skill. Being able to sell the call is

792
00:38:47,600 --> 00:38:50,279
Speaker 2: a skill, and there's literally nobody better at it right

793
00:38:50,320 --> 00:38:54,520
Speaker 2: now than Shake, goes Alexander. Every team just wants it

794
00:38:54,560 --> 00:38:56,000
Speaker 2: to be fair. They want to get the same calls

795
00:38:56,000 --> 00:38:58,720
Speaker 2: that the that the Thunder get HM and they don't always.

796
00:39:01,160 --> 00:39:04,520
Speaker 1: Last night, yeah, I thought the rest Shae could have

797
00:39:04,520 --> 00:39:05,200
Speaker 1: been way more mad.

798
00:39:05,320 --> 00:39:06,879
Speaker 2: The rest of the brutal. The rest of the rest

799
00:39:06,920 --> 00:39:09,160
Speaker 2: were brutal. We saw too much John.

800
00:39:09,920 --> 00:39:13,359
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a lot of video reviews. Yeah, and they were.

801
00:39:14,120 --> 00:39:16,760
Speaker 1: Maybe part of it was that they had three guys

802
00:39:17,200 --> 00:39:21,080
Speaker 1: on headsets at one point. Talking to Secaccas and even

803
00:39:21,160 --> 00:39:23,799
Speaker 1: Iron Eagle, I thought did a great job. As two

804
00:39:23,880 --> 00:39:27,600
Speaker 1: guys took off the headsets, he said, WHOA, some progress here.

805
00:39:27,640 --> 00:39:32,960
Speaker 1: We've only got one headsetter. That's awesome, because yeah, I

806
00:39:32,960 --> 00:39:35,040
Speaker 1: think flops are just called too much. Again, I think

807
00:39:35,080 --> 00:39:37,640
Speaker 1: Shake could have been way more mad. But when he

808
00:39:37,680 --> 00:39:39,759
Speaker 1: went to the bench, with that fourth foul, he's called

809
00:39:39,760 --> 00:39:42,160
Speaker 1: for a flagrant. That was weird, and that was weird.

810
00:39:42,200 --> 00:39:45,320
Speaker 1: He was called for a flagrant. That dude was so calm.

811
00:39:45,440 --> 00:39:48,719
Speaker 1: He was joking with Jalen Williams. They're joking together. You

812
00:39:48,719 --> 00:39:52,440
Speaker 1: could literally say something read his mouth where Jalen was like,

813
00:39:52,480 --> 00:39:55,759
Speaker 1: I know, and they're like joking. Two minutes into the

814
00:39:55,800 --> 00:39:57,719
Speaker 1: third quarter, guy has to go to the bench for

815
00:39:57,760 --> 00:40:01,200
Speaker 1: the second time early in the game because he's called

816
00:40:01,239 --> 00:40:03,160
Speaker 1: for a bunch of fouls. I thought he could have

817
00:40:03,200 --> 00:40:09,160
Speaker 1: got more offensive fouls called his way, the standard calls

818
00:40:09,200 --> 00:40:12,800
Speaker 1: that do happen, or him going to the floor that happened.

819
00:40:12,800 --> 00:40:17,160
Speaker 1: But all in all, yeah, five free throw discrepancy in

820
00:40:17,200 --> 00:40:17,640
Speaker 1: this game.

821
00:40:17,760 --> 00:40:20,120
Speaker 2: It's not all about free throws though. That's what the thing.

822
00:40:20,120 --> 00:40:22,160
Speaker 2: The Lakers are saying, we should have more free throws,

823
00:40:22,200 --> 00:40:24,640
Speaker 2: we should be taking more free throws, and they watched

824
00:40:24,680 --> 00:40:28,240
Speaker 2: they will in Game three guaranteed all this complaining plus

825
00:40:28,280 --> 00:40:30,360
Speaker 2: Lakers home game, they will take more free throws.

826
00:40:30,600 --> 00:40:34,239
Speaker 1: Well, that's why they're doing it for sure. Yeah, we'll

827
00:40:34,239 --> 00:40:36,319
Speaker 1: say though, I mean, if it's not about free throw

828
00:40:36,520 --> 00:40:39,480
Speaker 1: getting more free throws, then it's just five free throws

829
00:40:39,560 --> 00:40:41,920
Speaker 1: difference I don't see I don't see it as a

830
00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:45,279
Speaker 1: huge difference in this game. When guys are called for

831
00:40:45,320 --> 00:40:49,560
Speaker 1: flagrants either way, the flops have to stop. I think

832
00:40:49,600 --> 00:40:53,279
Speaker 1: that's the biggest one. But to each their own. Let

833
00:40:53,360 --> 00:40:54,759
Speaker 1: us know on the stream team, if you want to

834
00:40:54,760 --> 00:40:56,839
Speaker 1: talk about referee some more, if you want to talk

835
00:40:56,880 --> 00:41:00,719
Speaker 1: about Goebel and Taylor and yeah it was the third Yeah,

836
00:41:00,719 --> 00:41:05,960
Speaker 1: I don't know his name, Mark lindsay, yeah, yep, all right,

837
00:41:06,400 --> 00:41:08,799
Speaker 1: anything else on this game, I don't think so.

838
00:41:09,040 --> 00:41:11,800
Speaker 2: I mean, the referee thing that bugged me the most

839
00:41:11,960 --> 00:41:14,200
Speaker 2: was when they had that jump ball with a I

840
00:41:14,200 --> 00:41:16,640
Speaker 2: think it was Chat and Jackson Hayes, And this was

841
00:41:16,680 --> 00:41:20,840
Speaker 2: a big part of the huddle afterwards. Basically Chat is

842
00:41:20,880 --> 00:41:23,160
Speaker 2: like telling whoever I ended up throwing the jump ball.

843
00:41:23,239 --> 00:41:25,359
Speaker 2: Maybe it was John Goebli saying don't let Jackson Hayes

844
00:41:25,360 --> 00:41:27,080
Speaker 2: hold my arms. I was like, all right, Jackson Hayes,

845
00:41:27,080 --> 00:41:28,759
Speaker 2: don't hold his arm. And then it was like, I

846
00:41:28,800 --> 00:41:31,200
Speaker 2: want to stand here. No, I wanted to stand there first,

847
00:41:31,200 --> 00:41:32,879
Speaker 2: but wait, I wanted to stand over here. Blah blah

848
00:41:32,920 --> 00:41:34,840
Speaker 2: blah blah. It looks like three minutes to jump the

849
00:41:34,880 --> 00:41:35,319
Speaker 2: ball up.

850
00:41:35,920 --> 00:41:38,960
Speaker 1: Weird. That sucked yeah, Lebron. That's the one where Lebron

851
00:41:39,040 --> 00:41:44,160
Speaker 1: came running in from Yeah, for him to negotiate what's

852
00:41:44,200 --> 00:41:48,520
Speaker 1: going on. Yeah, that was tough. The Lakers can still

853
00:41:48,520 --> 00:41:52,279
Speaker 1: win one. They can still win one. They can.

854
00:41:52,600 --> 00:41:56,840
Speaker 2: Yeah they won't, but they can't. They won't get this

855
00:41:56,920 --> 00:41:59,960
Speaker 2: series is over. Yeah, I mean no offense to the lake.

856
00:42:00,440 --> 00:42:03,839
Speaker 1: Yeah. Hopefully Austin Reeves takes what he had in Game

857
00:42:03,880 --> 00:42:06,040
Speaker 1: two there and keeps it going to Game three, because

858
00:42:06,040 --> 00:42:08,200
Speaker 1: he got better as the game went on, and he

859
00:42:08,239 --> 00:42:12,600
Speaker 1: has overcoming his injuries, and so there's an effort level

860
00:42:12,600 --> 00:42:16,560
Speaker 1: and hopefully we'll see that and less referee talk from us.

861
00:42:17,600 --> 00:42:21,120
Speaker 1: All right, after the break, we'll get to some playoff

862
00:42:21,160 --> 00:42:23,600
Speaker 1: hot takes. We've got to drop some in. But first

863
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867
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868
00:42:43,680 --> 00:42:48,320
Speaker 1: know who's playing tonight. Nick's Philly og still questionable, Josh

869
00:42:48,320 --> 00:42:53,759
Speaker 1: Hart questionable left thumb right, Mitch Robinson probable let's good

870
00:42:53,760 --> 00:42:59,400
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871
00:42:59,440 --> 00:43:02,279
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872
00:43:02,320 --> 00:43:06,080
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Speaker 2: Sixers, are favored tonight on FANDUL. I don't know about that.

884
00:43:43,280 --> 00:43:45,480
Speaker 2: Only one and a half points, but still.

885
00:43:45,680 --> 00:43:50,600
Speaker 1: Yes with a questionable. Joel embiid perma questionable. I would

886
00:43:50,600 --> 00:43:54,359
Speaker 1: say perma questionable. You just don't think they're going home

887
00:43:54,440 --> 00:43:56,560
Speaker 1: to take care of biz. Was a three and a

888
00:43:56,600 --> 00:43:57,799
Speaker 1: half point line.

889
00:43:57,520 --> 00:43:59,680
Speaker 2: One and a half, yeah, I mean it's basically a

890
00:43:59,680 --> 00:44:01,799
Speaker 2: pick up. But still, I mean, the Knicks have been

891
00:44:01,800 --> 00:44:04,200
Speaker 2: better for sure. They have been definitely been the best

892
00:44:04,200 --> 00:44:05,240
Speaker 2: team in the Eastern Conference.

893
00:44:05,400 --> 00:44:07,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, and we will get to some Knicks in these

894
00:44:07,920 --> 00:44:12,040
Speaker 1: hot hot playoff takes, but we decided to throw a

895
00:44:12,040 --> 00:44:14,920
Speaker 1: few in there. That's right, Trey, you gotta start it.

896
00:44:15,000 --> 00:44:17,480
Speaker 1: What's a hot playoff take for the twenty twenty six

897
00:44:17,680 --> 00:44:18,720
Speaker 1: play It's a hot take.

898
00:44:18,560 --> 00:44:23,080
Speaker 2: For you, Tess. Lebron James is underrated. The Lebron James.

899
00:44:23,080 --> 00:44:25,560
Speaker 2: We talked about him as an X factor coming into

900
00:44:25,560 --> 00:44:27,719
Speaker 2: this series. First time ever this guy's been mentioned as

901
00:44:27,760 --> 00:44:30,839
Speaker 2: an X factor. We all picked against him in the

902
00:44:30,880 --> 00:44:33,319
Speaker 2: first round of the playoffs. Now, look, we thought Kevin

903
00:44:33,360 --> 00:44:36,120
Speaker 2: Durant was going to play, but still we picked Kevin

904
00:44:36,200 --> 00:44:39,440
Speaker 2: Durant over Lebron James. That's a crazy move that we did.

905
00:44:39,480 --> 00:44:42,399
Speaker 2: He got one vote for anything in the anonymous player

906
00:44:42,480 --> 00:44:45,400
Speaker 2: pull the Athletic did, and it was for being the

907
00:44:45,400 --> 00:44:48,160
Speaker 2: most overrated player. He's been a top ten player in

908
00:44:48,200 --> 00:44:51,600
Speaker 2: this playoffs, currently fourteenth in points per game, third and

909
00:44:51,719 --> 00:44:54,799
Speaker 2: assists per game. His percentages aren't that great. He hasn't

910
00:44:54,800 --> 00:44:58,960
Speaker 2: been shooting the three ball very well this postseason yet,

911
00:44:58,960 --> 00:45:02,480
Speaker 2: but still He's like twenty four points per game, six rebounds,

912
00:45:02,640 --> 00:45:07,480
Speaker 2: almost eight assists, playing with underman teams that keep winning.

913
00:45:07,520 --> 00:45:09,680
Speaker 2: They haven't won against the Thunder, it's the Thunder, but

914
00:45:09,719 --> 00:45:12,319
Speaker 2: they took care of business against the Rockets. He had

915
00:45:12,360 --> 00:45:15,840
Speaker 2: that incredible Game six where he was just masterful in

916
00:45:16,960 --> 00:45:20,280
Speaker 2: ending the comeback bid for the Rockets, advancing the Lakers.

917
00:45:20,680 --> 00:45:24,520
Speaker 2: And it's just crazy to see this guy in twenty

918
00:45:24,560 --> 00:45:26,319
Speaker 2: twenty six doing the same things he was doing in

919
00:45:26,320 --> 00:45:27,960
Speaker 2: two thousand and eight, where it's like, your team isn't

920
00:45:28,800 --> 00:45:30,560
Speaker 2: isn't good enough, but you got Lebron, so you got

921
00:45:30,600 --> 00:45:34,120
Speaker 2: a chance. It's still the case that in twenty twenty six,

922
00:45:34,120 --> 00:45:37,400
Speaker 2: if you got Lebron, you got a chance. Yes, that's impressive.

923
00:45:38,040 --> 00:45:42,040
Speaker 2: He has become underrated because you compare him to twenty

924
00:45:42,080 --> 00:45:45,080
Speaker 2: twelve Lebron, Right, I know, his absolute peak, when he

925
00:45:45,239 --> 00:45:47,360
Speaker 2: was maybe the best player to ever be on the

926
00:45:47,360 --> 00:45:50,600
Speaker 2: court for a basketball game. He's not that anymore. But

927
00:45:50,920 --> 00:45:52,720
Speaker 2: there aren't a lot of guys you would take ahead

928
00:45:52,719 --> 00:45:56,120
Speaker 2: of Lebron in a playoffs only draft. You're telling me,

929
00:45:56,160 --> 00:45:57,960
Speaker 2: I got to win sixteen games over the course of

930
00:45:58,000 --> 00:46:01,279
Speaker 2: three months. Lebron's probably he's still going like top eight.

931
00:46:01,520 --> 00:46:06,600
Speaker 1: You know, he is underrated. I think this is very accurate.

932
00:46:06,920 --> 00:46:09,200
Speaker 1: We kind of just skipped over him as a first

933
00:46:09,280 --> 00:46:16,560
Speaker 1: round playoff pick for the Lakers for whatever reason. Yeah,

934
00:46:17,640 --> 00:46:21,080
Speaker 1: I think it's clear now that he's not retiring this offseason.

935
00:46:21,640 --> 00:46:23,800
Speaker 1: I mean, he can do what he wants, but it

936
00:46:23,960 --> 00:46:28,160
Speaker 1: sure feels like he can play longer, Yeah, if he

937
00:46:28,239 --> 00:46:33,359
Speaker 1: wants and be freaking good. He's just really good. He's

938
00:46:33,360 --> 00:46:36,480
Speaker 1: not hanging on by any means. He's throwing down dunks.

939
00:46:36,480 --> 00:46:41,919
Speaker 1: He's physically very strong at recovering as well. So it's

940
00:46:41,920 --> 00:46:44,160
Speaker 1: not like he has a good game bad game. He's

941
00:46:44,160 --> 00:46:50,200
Speaker 1: just so steady every night. So unless for whatever reason

942
00:46:50,200 --> 00:46:52,400
Speaker 1: he wants to stop playing, I don't see why he would.

943
00:46:52,800 --> 00:46:55,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, it seems very unlikely that he would be done

944
00:46:56,440 --> 00:46:59,880
Speaker 2: after this season. And it's also weird because, like, he

945
00:47:00,040 --> 00:47:03,080
Speaker 2: looks so good as a third option when Luca and

946
00:47:03,160 --> 00:47:05,440
Speaker 2: Reeves were both healthy, and then he had to snap

947
00:47:05,440 --> 00:47:08,239
Speaker 2: back into number one mode And now it's like it

948
00:47:08,320 --> 00:47:10,400
Speaker 2: seemed like the end of Lebron in LA at the

949
00:47:10,520 --> 00:47:15,920
Speaker 2: very least, But now the Lakers, like, should they bring

950
00:47:16,080 --> 00:47:17,280
Speaker 2: Lebron back? Maybe?

951
00:47:17,520 --> 00:47:17,719
Speaker 1: Yeah?

952
00:47:17,719 --> 00:47:19,680
Speaker 2: Should they figure out a way to pay him? And

953
00:47:20,080 --> 00:47:22,680
Speaker 2: be able to keep Reeves under contract as well, because

954
00:47:22,760 --> 00:47:25,440
Speaker 2: the three of them looked really, really good, and you

955
00:47:25,560 --> 00:47:27,880
Speaker 2: want to have Lebron on your team come playoff time

956
00:47:27,960 --> 00:47:29,400
Speaker 2: rather than have to go up against them. So I

957
00:47:29,440 --> 00:47:31,160
Speaker 2: don't think it's a done deal that he leaves the

958
00:47:31,239 --> 00:47:35,319
Speaker 2: Lakers anymore, though, you know, for the majority of the

959
00:47:35,320 --> 00:47:37,000
Speaker 2: season it definitely felt like he was on his way

960
00:47:37,000 --> 00:47:39,000
Speaker 2: out and that their time together was going to be

961
00:47:39,000 --> 00:47:40,800
Speaker 2: coming too a close. I don't think that's a guarantee

962
00:47:40,840 --> 00:47:41,280
Speaker 2: you anymore.

963
00:47:42,080 --> 00:47:44,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, the reason why you don't bring him back is

964
00:47:44,680 --> 00:47:48,400
Speaker 1: to get better as a team overall, to have more depth,

965
00:47:48,800 --> 00:47:50,919
Speaker 1: because they did lose in the first round last year

966
00:47:51,480 --> 00:47:54,200
Speaker 1: and the year before then. And there's a reason for

967
00:47:54,280 --> 00:47:57,320
Speaker 1: that because we're talking about them not being able to

968
00:47:57,320 --> 00:48:00,680
Speaker 1: play guys against Okac. But it's all about if he

969
00:48:00,680 --> 00:48:03,919
Speaker 1: wants to take a discount, like we've heard about other

970
00:48:04,000 --> 00:48:09,360
Speaker 1: teams in Cleveland. So there's that because they have money

971
00:48:10,080 --> 00:48:15,200
Speaker 1: going to Luca, obviously, but besides that, the contracts are

972
00:48:15,280 --> 00:48:19,919
Speaker 1: fairly low with this team is currently constructed. So yeah,

973
00:48:19,960 --> 00:48:23,719
Speaker 1: if he wants to stick around, I definitely would bring

974
00:48:23,800 --> 00:48:24,160
Speaker 1: him back.

975
00:48:24,640 --> 00:48:25,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, they got a lot They got a lot of

976
00:48:25,920 --> 00:48:27,800
Speaker 2: stuff to do. Yeah, this summer, they're gonna have to

977
00:48:27,800 --> 00:48:29,160
Speaker 2: figure out what to do with Reeves. He's got a

978
00:48:29,160 --> 00:48:31,439
Speaker 2: player option. He's not going to take that because he's

979
00:48:31,440 --> 00:48:33,800
Speaker 2: going to get paid from somebody or from the Lakers.

980
00:48:33,800 --> 00:48:35,800
Speaker 2: The Lakers should probably bring him back. But like Ruis

981
00:48:35,840 --> 00:48:38,600
Speaker 2: a free agent Canard Maxi Kleba is still on the books.

982
00:48:38,600 --> 00:48:40,040
Speaker 2: I don't know what's going to happen with eight. And

983
00:48:40,080 --> 00:48:42,040
Speaker 2: he signed basically a one year proved that you can

984
00:48:42,080 --> 00:48:44,439
Speaker 2: do anything sort of deal with the player option. He's

985
00:48:44,480 --> 00:48:46,839
Speaker 2: been decent. He was pretty good I thought in the

986
00:48:46,840 --> 00:48:50,919
Speaker 2: first round. But other than that, like the books can

987
00:48:51,080 --> 00:48:54,040
Speaker 2: be decently clean. But you're right, it would end up

988
00:48:54,080 --> 00:48:55,640
Speaker 2: being a top heavy team, which has kind of been

989
00:48:55,640 --> 00:48:57,680
Speaker 2: the Lakers undoing the past couple of seasons.

990
00:48:57,880 --> 00:49:00,800
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, and the front office this is a question

991
00:49:01,280 --> 00:49:05,120
Speaker 1: and the ownership change and whether Rob Planka has the

992
00:49:05,120 --> 00:49:07,560
Speaker 1: freedom to do what he wants. Maybe he does. But

993
00:49:07,760 --> 00:49:11,279
Speaker 1: besides Luca being paid fifty one next year, it's a

994
00:49:11,360 --> 00:49:13,520
Speaker 1: drop off. As you said that Austin Reeves player option

995
00:49:13,640 --> 00:49:19,360
Speaker 1: is the next highest paid contract currently under on the

996
00:49:19,400 --> 00:49:23,360
Speaker 1: books for next year at just about fifteen million. Rui's

997
00:49:23,400 --> 00:49:26,440
Speaker 1: off the books, Canard is off the books. There's just

998
00:49:26,480 --> 00:49:29,319
Speaker 1: not a lot of money tied up next season, all right.

999
00:49:29,719 --> 00:49:33,640
Speaker 1: Moving on, the Knicks are great because of CJ McCollum.

1000
00:49:34,360 --> 00:49:37,399
Speaker 1: When CJ McCollum hit that game winner in Game three

1001
00:49:37,440 --> 00:49:39,279
Speaker 1: of the first round for the Atlanta Hawks against the

1002
00:49:39,360 --> 00:49:43,120
Speaker 1: New York Knicks, the Knicks changed the way they play

1003
00:49:43,160 --> 00:49:47,200
Speaker 1: basketball and they're playing way better. Game four, that is

1004
00:49:47,239 --> 00:49:50,440
Speaker 1: when karl Anthony Town started to be that guy at

1005
00:49:50,440 --> 00:49:53,440
Speaker 1: the top of the key, at the top of the

1006
00:49:53,480 --> 00:49:56,280
Speaker 1: three point arc, just fire and passes, fire and passes,

1007
00:49:56,280 --> 00:49:59,960
Speaker 1: and that's when ogn Andobi was able to cut baseline

1008
00:50:00,040 --> 00:50:02,600
Speaker 1: and be so good. He's been good in the whole series.

1009
00:50:02,640 --> 00:50:05,839
Speaker 1: But other guys, Michale Bridges started to pick it up.

1010
00:50:06,080 --> 00:50:09,759
Speaker 1: Josh Hart always good, and Jalen Brunson was able to

1011
00:50:09,840 --> 00:50:12,440
Speaker 1: be good off the passes and just not have to

1012
00:50:12,440 --> 00:50:15,080
Speaker 1: do as much bringing up the ball up the floor.

1013
00:50:15,120 --> 00:50:19,520
Speaker 1: And part of why they're better, I think not only

1014
00:50:19,680 --> 00:50:22,319
Speaker 1: is Carlinton Town's a giant man and able to have

1015
00:50:22,480 --> 00:50:24,719
Speaker 1: the vision to see over top of everybody and throw

1016
00:50:24,760 --> 00:50:27,279
Speaker 1: it to guys who are willing to cut, but it

1017
00:50:27,280 --> 00:50:31,080
Speaker 1: gets him involved earlier, and I think that is a

1018
00:50:31,120 --> 00:50:37,960
Speaker 1: great sign for the Nixon General to help him offensively,

1019
00:50:38,000 --> 00:50:42,280
Speaker 1: to help him defensively, but just to have Karlanthon Towns

1020
00:50:42,400 --> 00:50:46,480
Speaker 1: as part of every single possession and Jalen Brunson not

1021
00:50:46,600 --> 00:50:50,399
Speaker 1: having to mentally start every possession. Now they don't say,

1022
00:50:50,480 --> 00:50:52,600
Speaker 1: Karlenton Towns, you're the past for every possession because that's

1023
00:50:52,600 --> 00:50:54,200
Speaker 1: not what a good team does. But the good team

1024
00:50:54,239 --> 00:50:57,400
Speaker 1: also doesn't say, hey, Jalen Brunson, you're starting every possession

1025
00:50:57,560 --> 00:50:59,560
Speaker 1: and you're bringing it up every possession. That's why Tom

1026
00:50:59,560 --> 00:51:03,240
Speaker 1: Thibodeaux leaves. It's a team sport still, That's what I've heard.

1027
00:51:03,680 --> 00:51:07,040
Speaker 1: But simply put, I think it makes him better and

1028
00:51:07,280 --> 00:51:10,080
Speaker 1: as good as og has been on his own, I

1029
00:51:10,080 --> 00:51:13,160
Speaker 1: think Carlton TUN's firing it to him has really helped.

1030
00:51:13,600 --> 00:51:17,520
Speaker 1: Six assists in that first game, four after McCollum hit

1031
00:51:17,560 --> 00:51:21,720
Speaker 1: that game winner that went directly to oj Anobi Carleton

1032
00:51:21,719 --> 00:51:25,719
Speaker 1: town Sith Tennasis, but six directly to him, So it's

1033
00:51:25,760 --> 00:51:29,160
Speaker 1: helped everything. It's really unlocked their team. It's happened to

1034
00:51:29,239 --> 00:51:31,839
Speaker 1: other teams in the history of the National Basketball Association

1035
00:51:31,960 --> 00:51:36,680
Speaker 1: where something happens in the playoffs and you click, like

1036
00:51:36,800 --> 00:51:40,200
Speaker 1: the injury that the Miami Heatles had and Chris Bosh

1037
00:51:40,239 --> 00:51:42,920
Speaker 1: went to the center spot. Sure, it's a different team.

1038
00:51:43,840 --> 00:51:46,160
Speaker 1: You can keep going. Hey, David Lee got injured, Draymond

1039
00:51:46,200 --> 00:51:50,279
Speaker 1: Green comes in. Other stuff happened there, you know, Mark Jackson, Lene.

1040
00:51:50,520 --> 00:51:55,680
Speaker 1: But this is something that clicked, and it's weird that

1041
00:51:55,760 --> 00:51:58,240
Speaker 1: it wasn't really a part of their offense the entire season.

1042
00:51:58,840 --> 00:52:01,040
Speaker 2: It's pretty funny that we're like, oh, Mike Brown, this

1043
00:52:01,080 --> 00:52:03,640
Speaker 2: guy's an offensive genius. He decided to get the two

1044
00:52:03,640 --> 00:52:06,879
Speaker 2: best players the ball. We have one of the team's

1045
00:52:06,920 --> 00:52:09,680
Speaker 2: best players pass to the other teams the other best players.

1046
00:52:09,760 --> 00:52:14,120
Speaker 2: It's like, whoa brilliant strategy, Mike Brown. But it was.

1047
00:52:14,600 --> 00:52:17,360
Speaker 2: Everybody's been asking for the Knicks to have more variety

1048
00:52:17,719 --> 00:52:21,560
Speaker 2: in their offense, to have more cohesion from Towns and

1049
00:52:21,640 --> 00:52:24,720
Speaker 2: from Brunson, and those two playing so well together. Brunson

1050
00:52:24,760 --> 00:52:27,600
Speaker 2: being able to playoff Towns has just empowered everybody else.

1051
00:52:28,320 --> 00:52:32,000
Speaker 2: Og Anobi is playing with an advantage basketball. It feels

1052
00:52:32,040 --> 00:52:34,400
Speaker 2: like the entire time because Brunson will set him a backscreen,

1053
00:52:34,800 --> 00:52:36,799
Speaker 2: or Ogi will set a screen for Brunson. They chase

1054
00:52:36,840 --> 00:52:40,319
Speaker 2: after Brunson, then suddenly OG's open for a back door cut.

1055
00:52:40,360 --> 00:52:42,399
Speaker 2: It's been really, really impressive what the Knicks have done.

1056
00:52:42,480 --> 00:52:44,560
Speaker 2: This is why they needed to be tested a little

1057
00:52:44,560 --> 00:52:46,600
Speaker 2: bit in round one. I agree with what Ziggy saying

1058
00:52:46,680 --> 00:52:49,520
Speaker 2: here in the stream team. The Knicks basically have won

1059
00:52:49,560 --> 00:52:52,080
Speaker 2: every playoff game they've played so far. They just happened

1060
00:52:52,120 --> 00:52:54,359
Speaker 2: to blow two of them to the Hawks, and those

1061
00:52:54,400 --> 00:52:57,040
Speaker 2: two clutch games they lost by a single point. You know,

1062
00:52:57,120 --> 00:52:59,000
Speaker 2: they were up in both of them, or at least

1063
00:52:59,000 --> 00:53:02,719
Speaker 2: on the comeback trail as well. They've been good defensively

1064
00:53:02,840 --> 00:53:05,399
Speaker 2: as well, like no complaints about Town's defense at all

1065
00:53:05,719 --> 00:53:08,560
Speaker 2: so far. Josh Hart is barely scoring, but he's doing

1066
00:53:08,719 --> 00:53:12,600
Speaker 2: everything else. Bridges is thriving in transition, and that's just

1067
00:53:12,680 --> 00:53:16,680
Speaker 2: kind of keying him going forward. I'm a little concern

1068
00:53:16,680 --> 00:53:20,800
Speaker 2: Acus though. The hamstring strain for ogn Nanobi is interesting.

1069
00:53:20,840 --> 00:53:23,760
Speaker 2: They're saying he's day to day. He had a hamstring

1070
00:53:23,760 --> 00:53:26,360
Speaker 2: strain in the playoffs once upon a time, I believe

1071
00:53:26,400 --> 00:53:29,040
Speaker 2: it was twenty twenty four. I think he missed I

1072
00:53:29,080 --> 00:53:30,840
Speaker 2: don't know if he missed three games or four games,

1073
00:53:31,000 --> 00:53:33,640
Speaker 2: he missed four games or something like that. Yes, Luca

1074
00:53:33,680 --> 00:53:35,719
Speaker 2: had his hamstring strain, and we just heard him say

1075
00:53:35,800 --> 00:53:39,080
Speaker 2: the doctors told him eight weeks when it happened. Jalen

1076
00:53:39,080 --> 00:53:41,680
Speaker 2: Williams has been out for multiple weeks at this point,

1077
00:53:41,680 --> 00:53:44,400
Speaker 2: so it's impossible to know when Og comes back. And

1078
00:53:44,440 --> 00:53:47,959
Speaker 2: he has been incredible for this Knicks team on both

1079
00:53:48,080 --> 00:53:50,000
Speaker 2: ends of the court. You know the defense is going

1080
00:53:50,080 --> 00:53:51,880
Speaker 2: to be there, but the way he's been rebounding in

1081
00:53:51,920 --> 00:53:54,439
Speaker 2: the playoffs and then the way he's shooting the three

1082
00:53:55,080 --> 00:53:58,279
Speaker 2: is crazy and just scoring very, very efficiently. He's a

1083
00:53:58,320 --> 00:54:02,040
Speaker 2: matchup nightmare, and if they don't have him, maybe that's

1084
00:54:02,080 --> 00:54:04,439
Speaker 2: why the Sixers are favored one and a half time.

1085
00:54:04,480 --> 00:54:06,520
Speaker 2: I don't think it should swing the line that much,

1086
00:54:07,000 --> 00:54:10,080
Speaker 2: but Og has been really, really good and they're gonna

1087
00:54:10,080 --> 00:54:13,640
Speaker 2: need him back as healthy as possible for the next

1088
00:54:13,719 --> 00:54:16,640
Speaker 2: round because if you're forecasting the Pistons to be there

1089
00:54:17,200 --> 00:54:20,960
Speaker 2: Pistons versus Nicks, Og is the number one guy I

1090
00:54:20,960 --> 00:54:23,640
Speaker 2: would want on kid Cunningham. So I wonder if they

1091
00:54:23,800 --> 00:54:26,600
Speaker 2: kind of take their time with him returning during this

1092
00:54:26,680 --> 00:54:30,359
Speaker 2: series since we don't know Embiid's status as well, they

1093
00:54:30,360 --> 00:54:32,279
Speaker 2: seem to be in control. I wonder if they just

1094
00:54:32,880 --> 00:54:35,040
Speaker 2: take their time with Og, get him one hundred percent healthy,

1095
00:54:35,040 --> 00:54:37,440
Speaker 2: because they'll need him for conference finals and finals.

1096
00:54:37,520 --> 00:54:40,359
Speaker 1: For sure, totally that's what they should do. And by

1097
00:54:40,400 --> 00:54:43,040
Speaker 1: all the reports and all the talks, it's not a

1098
00:54:43,200 --> 00:54:45,480
Speaker 1: major injury. But you're right in that we don't know

1099
00:54:45,520 --> 00:54:48,319
Speaker 1: when it's gonna be okay for him to come back.

1100
00:54:48,360 --> 00:54:50,200
Speaker 1: It could be a week, but they will slow play it.

1101
00:54:50,440 --> 00:54:53,480
Speaker 1: I totally agree, and they should and they are in

1102
00:54:53,480 --> 00:54:56,480
Speaker 1: a good position being up to to do that and

1103
00:54:56,560 --> 00:54:59,279
Speaker 1: other guys to be able to chip in. And you

1104
00:54:59,320 --> 00:55:03,200
Speaker 1: have a revital Karl Anthony Towns to lead them along

1105
00:55:03,239 --> 00:55:07,560
Speaker 1: with Jalen Brunson. And because of that and what they

1106
00:55:07,600 --> 00:55:10,000
Speaker 1: did with Carlton Towns, mckel Bridges became a player. MIKEL

1107
00:55:10,000 --> 00:55:11,880
Speaker 1: Bridges was not a good player to start that playoff

1108
00:55:11,920 --> 00:55:15,120
Speaker 1: series against the Atlanta Hawks several games, took him several games,

1109
00:55:16,120 --> 00:55:20,359
Speaker 1: and both Jaylen Brunson playing awesome and Ogane and it'll

1110
00:55:20,360 --> 00:55:25,680
Speaker 1: be playing awesome. And then this Karl Anthony Towns replacement

1111
00:55:25,719 --> 00:55:29,320
Speaker 1: on the as far as the scheme goes, helped elevate

1112
00:55:29,360 --> 00:55:32,719
Speaker 1: mckel Bridges as well. So I think they feel comfortable

1113
00:55:32,760 --> 00:55:37,440
Speaker 1: slow playing og because mkel Bridges has played better and

1114
00:55:37,560 --> 00:55:41,000
Speaker 1: their depth feels like it is deeper and Karlthon Town's

1115
00:55:41,000 --> 00:55:43,799
Speaker 1: I just go flashback to early in that playoff series

1116
00:55:43,840 --> 00:55:47,759
Speaker 1: against Atlanta Hawks. There's some stretches like Carlton Down's coming

1117
00:55:47,840 --> 00:55:50,840
Speaker 1: up for his first six minutes before this new iteration

1118
00:55:50,960 --> 00:55:53,680
Speaker 1: of them, where it looked like he wasn't even playing.

1119
00:55:53,840 --> 00:55:56,000
Speaker 1: He wasn't doing a lot, It wasn't I don't even

1120
00:55:56,040 --> 00:55:57,279
Speaker 1: know if he was playing. Then he went to the

1121
00:55:57,280 --> 00:56:00,080
Speaker 1: bench and I wondered, what did I even see all

1122
00:56:00,080 --> 00:56:02,560
Speaker 1: Anthon Town's play. But this is different in that again,

1123
00:56:02,960 --> 00:56:07,000
Speaker 1: just more involved. The numbers aren't spectacular for Karlington Towns

1124
00:56:07,480 --> 00:56:10,720
Speaker 1: like scoring wise, but it doesn't matter. We're just getting

1125
00:56:10,719 --> 00:56:13,040
Speaker 1: more out of him. And this is the version of

1126
00:56:13,080 --> 00:56:16,879
Speaker 1: Brunson and Carlton Town's dead everybody thought Mike Brown would

1127
00:56:16,920 --> 00:56:20,239
Speaker 1: do six months ago, but here it is now and.

1128
00:56:20,200 --> 00:56:23,319
Speaker 2: They're like, they're playing defense. I think they got the

1129
00:56:23,320 --> 00:56:26,319
Speaker 2: second best, second best defense in the Eastern Conference through

1130
00:56:26,360 --> 00:56:29,080
Speaker 2: the playoffs so far, only behind Detroit, who you know,

1131
00:56:29,680 --> 00:56:31,560
Speaker 2: did have the benefit of playing against the Magic in

1132
00:56:31,640 --> 00:56:34,040
Speaker 2: round one. Not a lot of scoring to be done.

1133
00:56:34,040 --> 00:56:36,560
Speaker 2: There no discredit to the Pistons, they have been great,

1134
00:56:36,600 --> 00:56:39,400
Speaker 2: but the Knicks playing defense and their offense clicking.

1135
00:56:39,520 --> 00:56:42,839
Speaker 1: They look scary, no doubt. Okay, what's another hot take

1136
00:56:42,880 --> 00:56:43,960
Speaker 1: you got from these playoffs?

1137
00:56:43,960 --> 00:56:45,920
Speaker 2: I've got too much Draymond Green in my life right now.

1138
00:56:46,000 --> 00:56:49,880
Speaker 2: M Every time I open any timeline, I'm seeing Draymond

1139
00:56:49,920 --> 00:56:53,480
Speaker 2: versus Austin Rivers. I'm seeing Draymond versus Chuck and I

1140
00:56:53,520 --> 00:56:56,760
Speaker 2: do not care at all what this guy has to say, really,

1141
00:56:58,000 --> 00:57:00,160
Speaker 2: but I'm seeing it a lot. I'm seeing a lot

1142
00:57:00,200 --> 00:57:02,960
Speaker 2: of Austin Rivers versus Draymond. I did think it was

1143
00:57:03,000 --> 00:57:06,120
Speaker 2: funny that Draymond said he has the biggest bailout before

1144
00:57:06,160 --> 00:57:08,400
Speaker 2: the government. That was a hilarious line. There have been

1145
00:57:08,440 --> 00:57:10,839
Speaker 2: some funny lines, yeah, going back and forth, at least

1146
00:57:10,840 --> 00:57:13,480
Speaker 2: in that beef, the Draymond versus Austin Rivers. I thought

1147
00:57:13,520 --> 00:57:16,760
Speaker 2: his performance on the inside the NBA was a little lacking,

1148
00:57:16,880 --> 00:57:19,440
Speaker 2: though people were very upset that he went against that

1149
00:57:19,520 --> 00:57:22,040
Speaker 2: he went to Charles Barkley for not being his best

1150
00:57:22,080 --> 00:57:24,240
Speaker 2: self when he played with the Houston Rockets at the

1151
00:57:24,320 --> 00:57:28,800
Speaker 2: end of his career. But yeah, Draymond, to me, he

1152
00:57:28,880 --> 00:57:31,440
Speaker 2: is more of a podcaster than a broadcaster, if that

1153
00:57:31,560 --> 00:57:35,160
Speaker 2: makes sense. The way he was interacting with the other

1154
00:57:35,200 --> 00:57:37,720
Speaker 2: guys on inside, I thought was not playful enough. You

1155
00:57:37,760 --> 00:57:40,000
Speaker 2: gotta have a sense of joy on that set, and

1156
00:57:40,040 --> 00:57:41,960
Speaker 2: he has a sense of I want to beat you.

1157
00:57:42,000 --> 00:57:44,160
Speaker 2: In the debate, I.

1158
00:57:44,600 --> 00:57:48,200
Speaker 1: Would back and watch the Barkley thing. I think it's

1159
00:57:48,280 --> 00:57:53,120
Speaker 1: all how they interpret it and they feel about it,

1160
00:57:53,240 --> 00:57:56,240
Speaker 1: which determines how we feel about it. Let's say the

1161
00:57:56,320 --> 00:58:00,200
Speaker 1: producers put up Charles Barkley in a Rockets uniform. He

1162
00:58:00,240 --> 00:58:04,280
Speaker 1: looks slightly bigger. You know, we'd all hear Ernie or

1163
00:58:04,400 --> 00:58:08,640
Speaker 1: Kenny say you were a little overweight. You know, there's

1164
00:58:08,680 --> 00:58:10,640
Speaker 1: a laugh, and then we're all like, oh, that's kind

1165
00:58:10,680 --> 00:58:13,080
Speaker 1: of okay. Like he didn't go at him and say

1166
00:58:13,080 --> 00:58:16,000
Speaker 1: you stink. Charles Barkley basically said, what is your goal

1167
00:58:16,040 --> 00:58:19,240
Speaker 1: here for the next year? What are you trying to

1168
00:58:19,280 --> 00:58:21,560
Speaker 1: do it? And then Draymond thought about it, you know,

1169
00:58:21,640 --> 00:58:23,320
Speaker 1: he said, well, basically, I don't want to be you

1170
00:58:23,440 --> 00:58:28,440
Speaker 1: in our Houston Rockets uniform. Crickets no response. If there

1171
00:58:28,520 --> 00:58:31,080
Speaker 1: was a little giggle, you know, maybe we'd look at it.

1172
00:58:31,480 --> 00:58:32,120
Speaker 2: What's that look like?

1173
00:58:33,120 --> 00:58:36,640
Speaker 1: What's that look like? What does that look like? Yeah,

1174
00:58:36,680 --> 00:58:38,439
Speaker 1: there wasn't a lot of a lot of love there,

1175
00:58:38,480 --> 00:58:43,280
Speaker 1: but like us the ESPN crew, it's weird to call

1176
00:58:43,360 --> 00:58:46,280
Speaker 1: him the ESPN crew. But the ESPN slash TNT crew.

1177
00:58:46,440 --> 00:58:48,640
Speaker 1: They're working hard now. They don't want to make these

1178
00:58:48,760 --> 00:58:50,680
Speaker 1: they don't want to get ripped, you know what I mean,

1179
00:58:50,840 --> 00:58:54,000
Speaker 1: Like they're working every day. They just I know, it's

1180
00:58:54,000 --> 00:58:56,439
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. We used to laugh. We still joke.

1181
00:58:57,760 --> 00:59:01,080
Speaker 1: We still say we had a bad game, bad playing basketball.

1182
00:59:01,120 --> 00:59:03,520
Speaker 1: You know, we're not NBA players were not.

1183
00:59:04,200 --> 00:59:07,680
Speaker 2: But it kind of reminds me Draymond. The way Draymond

1184
00:59:07,880 --> 00:59:13,280
Speaker 2: was on his most recent appearance reminded me sort of

1185
00:59:13,280 --> 00:59:16,160
Speaker 2: of like when Shack first started going on inside and

1186
00:59:16,200 --> 00:59:19,920
Speaker 2: it was like, okay, man, just take a joke, have

1187
00:59:20,000 --> 00:59:22,520
Speaker 2: some fun. And Shaq grew into his role. He's become

1188
00:59:22,600 --> 00:59:25,120
Speaker 2: like the jester, you know, and he does have just

1189
00:59:25,160 --> 00:59:28,600
Speaker 2: a sense of playfulness on the outside. I don't know

1190
00:59:28,600 --> 00:59:30,240
Speaker 2: if that's Draymond's personality.

1191
00:59:30,440 --> 00:59:32,880
Speaker 1: But they didn't make a joke about Draymond. I mean,

1192
00:59:32,960 --> 00:59:34,080
Speaker 1: Draymond was the guy who made the.

1193
00:59:34,160 --> 00:59:36,800
Speaker 2: Mean Eventually they did. Oh, they read the stat to

1194
00:59:36,880 --> 00:59:39,720
Speaker 2: him that he's like the Kendrick Perkins of the NBA.

1195
00:59:40,000 --> 00:59:41,520
Speaker 1: Oh that's good, And he didn't make he didn't have

1196
00:59:41,600 --> 00:59:42,080
Speaker 1: fun with that.

1197
00:59:42,160 --> 00:59:44,400
Speaker 2: He kind of laughed, kind of laughed, but you could

1198
00:59:44,400 --> 00:59:47,280
Speaker 2: tell he was upset. He just seems to take it

1199
00:59:47,360 --> 00:59:49,680
Speaker 2: very personally. And I think that's Chuck's charm is that

1200
00:59:49,880 --> 00:59:51,960
Speaker 2: we know he was a great player. He was a

1201
00:59:52,000 --> 00:59:55,320
Speaker 2: better player than Draymond was. Draymond maybe had a more

1202
00:59:55,320 --> 00:59:58,520
Speaker 2: successful career. Yeah, different scenarios for sure. But the thing

1203
00:59:58,520 --> 01:00:01,280
Speaker 2: with Chuck is that he can dish it out and

1204
01:00:01,320 --> 01:00:03,320
Speaker 2: he can take it. He does not mind being the

1205
01:00:03,320 --> 01:00:05,600
Speaker 2: butt of the joke at all. He's the butt a lot.

1206
01:00:05,720 --> 01:00:09,440
Speaker 1: He didn't say anything when Draymond Green basically said you

1207
01:00:09,480 --> 01:00:11,840
Speaker 1: were a fat guy when you had a Houston Rockets jersey.

1208
01:00:11,880 --> 01:00:14,200
Speaker 1: He didn't laugh or he didn't. It was silent. So

1209
01:00:14,240 --> 01:00:17,280
Speaker 1: that was kind of odd. Not to defend Draymond Green,

1210
01:00:17,320 --> 01:00:18,760
Speaker 1: but I mean, the question was what are you going

1211
01:00:18,800 --> 01:00:21,520
Speaker 1: to do in the future of your career and he

1212
01:00:21,920 --> 01:00:24,600
Speaker 1: tried to make a joke when it comes to that.

1213
01:00:24,680 --> 01:00:27,960
Speaker 1: As far as the Hey Austin Rivers versus Draymond Green thing,

1214
01:00:28,000 --> 01:00:31,200
Speaker 1: I mean, that's way worse. That's like two different podcasts

1215
01:00:31,880 --> 01:00:35,360
Speaker 1: record me talking trash about this other guy. That's like,

1216
01:00:35,520 --> 01:00:37,600
Speaker 1: you know, when when Trey Young got into it with

1217
01:00:37,640 --> 01:00:41,080
Speaker 1: Patrick Beverley, like Okay, I have a conversa, go have

1218
01:00:41,120 --> 01:00:45,760
Speaker 1: a show. That would be good. But yeah, okay, I

1219
01:00:45,760 --> 01:00:46,040
Speaker 1: hear you.

1220
01:00:46,280 --> 01:00:48,760
Speaker 2: I did see Austin Rivers said Draymond play me one

1221
01:00:48,800 --> 01:00:53,439
Speaker 2: on one. Would you watch Draymond versus Austin Rivers. Yeah,

1222
01:00:54,160 --> 01:00:57,160
Speaker 2: that would be weird. I'm probably taking Austin. I think

1223
01:00:57,160 --> 01:00:59,400
Speaker 2: I have too, you know one, I mean that definitely

1224
01:00:59,400 --> 01:01:01,680
Speaker 2: suits Austin Rivers more than it does Draymond.

1225
01:01:01,920 --> 01:01:03,600
Speaker 1: The other guy can shoot, you know.

1226
01:01:03,920 --> 01:01:06,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think he can dribble and do moves. I

1227
01:01:06,880 --> 01:01:08,840
Speaker 2: haven't seen a lot of that from Draymond, not since

1228
01:01:08,880 --> 01:01:10,000
Speaker 2: the Michigan State days.

1229
01:01:10,240 --> 01:01:12,680
Speaker 1: Okay, so that's the fun.

1230
01:01:12,680 --> 01:01:15,040
Speaker 2: I'm just good. I'm just good on Draymond for right now.

1231
01:01:15,080 --> 01:01:16,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, I hear you. Yeah.

1232
01:01:16,040 --> 01:01:18,400
Speaker 2: And he's in my face right now.

1233
01:01:19,720 --> 01:01:21,880
Speaker 1: He's your algorithm. H I get it. I got it.

1234
01:01:22,800 --> 01:01:27,440
Speaker 1: Last playoff hot take here, twenty twenty six, Bismack biambo

1235
01:01:27,760 --> 01:01:32,360
Speaker 1: Is twenty nineteen, Jordan Lloyd. Okay, this isn't This isn't

1236
01:01:32,400 --> 01:01:36,280
Speaker 1: apples apples here, but let me explain. In twenty nineteen,

1237
01:01:36,400 --> 01:01:39,680
Speaker 1: Toronto Raptors went to the NBA Finals against Golden State Warriors.

1238
01:01:40,120 --> 01:01:43,880
Speaker 1: In the finals, the Warriors lost, Kevin Durant, Clay Thompson

1239
01:01:43,960 --> 01:01:47,520
Speaker 1: was out. The Raptors decided we're going boxing one. We're

1240
01:01:47,600 --> 01:01:53,400
Speaker 1: just basically having one guy front guard Steph Curry. We

1241
01:01:53,600 --> 01:01:55,680
Speaker 1: gotta take him out of the game. And in their

1242
01:01:55,720 --> 01:02:00,000
Speaker 1: practices they had a little known NBA player named Jorge

1243
01:02:00,160 --> 01:02:03,720
Speaker 1: and Lloyd take on the role of Steph Curry and

1244
01:02:03,800 --> 01:02:05,320
Speaker 1: run around and that's who we're going to guard. And

1245
01:02:05,320 --> 01:02:10,600
Speaker 1: he did that this year. It's different, but Bismack Biambo

1246
01:02:10,680 --> 01:02:13,760
Speaker 1: in the Spurs practices is basically going one on one

1247
01:02:14,000 --> 01:02:18,400
Speaker 1: with Victor webbin Yama. He is the guy who's trying

1248
01:02:18,440 --> 01:02:25,520
Speaker 1: to get Victor Webinyama to play against smaller, shorter guards

1249
01:02:25,520 --> 01:02:29,800
Speaker 1: who go or strong guys. Yeah yeah, yeah, stout dudes

1250
01:02:29,880 --> 01:02:33,880
Speaker 1: who get physical. That's what Bismack Biambo was doing in practice.

1251
01:02:33,960 --> 01:02:37,400
Speaker 1: They're just paying it to learn to help Victor Webnyama

1252
01:02:37,560 --> 01:02:40,440
Speaker 1: just chill out, calm down, take a hit and be

1253
01:02:40,520 --> 01:02:45,520
Speaker 1: comfortable in a game to adapt. Now it's not apples

1254
01:02:45,560 --> 01:02:48,760
Speaker 1: to apples because it's wem beyond offense. Well, Jordan Lloyd

1255
01:02:48,840 --> 01:02:50,560
Speaker 1: was trying to help the defense figure out how to

1256
01:02:50,640 --> 01:02:54,320
Speaker 1: run against Steph. But basically, what I'm saying is the

1257
01:02:54,400 --> 01:02:57,680
Speaker 1: guy in Jordan Lloyd that helped the Raptors understand how

1258
01:02:57,680 --> 01:03:01,040
Speaker 1: to play is similar to Bismack Beyambo here in this case,

1259
01:03:01,080 --> 01:03:03,760
Speaker 1: who doesn't play a lot. He's just out there to

1260
01:03:03,840 --> 01:03:07,200
Speaker 1: bang with Victor Rayman Yama to get him the most comfortable,

1261
01:03:07,280 --> 01:03:11,320
Speaker 1: to get this man with the mental IQU, the emotional

1262
01:03:11,360 --> 01:03:13,720
Speaker 1: IQ to understand what I got to do out there.

1263
01:03:14,160 --> 01:03:16,760
Speaker 1: So that's the comparison. That's where I'm going with it.

1264
01:03:16,920 --> 01:03:20,640
Speaker 3: Sure, Yeah, And he's looking for a reserve guy who

1265
01:03:20,720 --> 01:03:23,360
Speaker 3: is being is still important to the team because of

1266
01:03:23,440 --> 01:03:26,400
Speaker 3: what he's bringing on the practice court, which in Bismack's

1267
01:03:26,440 --> 01:03:28,200
Speaker 3: case is just smashing into Lebby.

1268
01:03:28,320 --> 01:03:31,640
Speaker 2: Yeah right, all right, let's line him up, bis Mack.

1269
01:03:31,760 --> 01:03:33,800
Speaker 2: You're just gonna run into him as many times as

1270
01:03:33,840 --> 01:03:36,120
Speaker 2: you possibly can. Yeah, Like, all right, let's let's do

1271
01:03:36,160 --> 01:03:38,200
Speaker 2: it for fifteen straight minutes. That's good.

1272
01:03:38,480 --> 01:03:38,720
Speaker 1: Okay.

1273
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Speaker 2: If these guys played a legitimate one on one game,

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01:03:40,960 --> 01:03:43,800
Speaker 2: Bismack Biambo versus Victor Webbinyamo, what do you think the

1275
01:03:43,840 --> 01:03:46,480
Speaker 2: score would be? We're talking up to eleven.

1276
01:03:47,960 --> 01:03:49,280
Speaker 1: I don't think Bismack would score.

1277
01:03:49,760 --> 01:03:54,440
Speaker 2: It's hard to imagine scoring. Yeah, he's going shaking bake

1278
01:03:54,520 --> 01:03:56,840
Speaker 2: step back threes. Yeah, you know, he's got to score

1279
01:03:56,880 --> 01:03:58,960
Speaker 2: over top when Byble maybe just runs through.

1280
01:03:59,200 --> 01:04:01,880
Speaker 1: Now, bis Mack about had a far longer career than

1281
01:04:01,960 --> 01:04:05,240
Speaker 1: Jordan Lloyd. It's surprising to me. Jordan Lloyd, this guy

1282
01:04:05,280 --> 01:04:08,040
Speaker 1: who played in Raptors practice, played only twelve games. The

1283
01:04:08,080 --> 01:04:08,680
Speaker 1: guy can score.

1284
01:04:08,880 --> 01:04:09,120
Speaker 2: Yeah.

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01:04:09,120 --> 01:04:12,680
Speaker 1: If it's Jordan Lloyd versus Bismack Biyambo, I'm taking Jordan Lloyd.

1286
01:04:13,000 --> 01:04:16,600
Speaker 1: If it's Jordan. If it's Jordan Lloyd versus Victor Webanyama,

1287
01:04:16,840 --> 01:04:18,840
Speaker 1: he's scoring more than Bismack Byamba, that's for sure. But

1288
01:04:18,880 --> 01:04:19,720
Speaker 1: I ain't taken him.

1289
01:04:20,600 --> 01:04:24,240
Speaker 2: I'm with you. I'm with you, Okay. Austin Rivers versus

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Speaker 2: twenty nineteen Jordan Lloyd, who wins one.

1291
01:04:26,360 --> 01:04:27,439
Speaker 1: B one Jordan Lloyd.

1292
01:04:27,840 --> 01:04:29,920
Speaker 2: Wow, Wow, Wow, we gotta set that one up.

1293
01:04:30,200 --> 01:04:30,840
Speaker 1: I gotta said it.

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01:04:30,840 --> 01:04:32,640
Speaker 2: I mean, Lloyd's in his prime right now. But look,

1295
01:04:32,680 --> 01:04:35,720
Speaker 2: Bismack fifteen years in the NBA. Yeah, man, that's amazing.

1296
01:04:35,880 --> 01:04:36,560
Speaker 1: It is amazing.

1297
01:04:36,600 --> 01:04:37,360
Speaker 2: It is really great.

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01:04:38,120 --> 01:04:40,680
Speaker 1: Listen. It happens to every big man where they have

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01:04:40,760 --> 01:04:45,040
Speaker 1: to just get hit, especially guys who plays sort of

1300
01:04:45,080 --> 01:04:47,240
Speaker 1: towards the perimeter, a slimmer guy, you know, seeing it

1301
01:04:47,240 --> 01:04:50,680
Speaker 1: with Dirk other guys. That's what Bismack Biyombo is for

1302
01:04:50,760 --> 01:04:54,080
Speaker 1: Victor weman Yama on the practice court. Yeah, so there's

1303
01:04:54,080 --> 01:04:58,320
Speaker 1: a there's a connection there. Again, looked good through one

1304
01:04:58,400 --> 01:05:03,040
Speaker 1: practice from what we've seen. Sure it's happened great bumping buddy,

1305
01:05:03,080 --> 01:05:05,040
Speaker 1: but yeah, he looked good there. And I mean Victormana

1306
01:05:05,200 --> 01:05:10,520
Speaker 1: look good in Game two against Randall or anybody who's

1307
01:05:10,520 --> 01:05:13,439
Speaker 1: trying to just bop them, he was. He was able

1308
01:05:13,480 --> 01:05:15,560
Speaker 1: to absorb it and just deal it.

1309
01:05:16,320 --> 01:05:18,120
Speaker 2: I do have one last hot take for you. Okay,

1310
01:05:19,000 --> 01:05:21,000
Speaker 2: it's gonna sound like I'm biased, but I promise you

1311
01:05:21,040 --> 01:05:25,360
Speaker 2: I'm not. Blake Griffin's FanDuel commercial is a modern classic.

1312
01:05:26,360 --> 01:05:28,080
Speaker 2: I'm talking about the one where he's in the bar.

1313
01:05:28,480 --> 01:05:32,720
Speaker 2: Luis Guzman is the bartender behind and they're talking about

1314
01:05:33,000 --> 01:05:36,600
Speaker 2: three pointers. And I just think it's so funny. I

1315
01:05:36,680 --> 01:05:40,480
Speaker 2: think the writing is so good. I think Blake's performance

1316
01:05:40,640 --> 01:05:41,360
Speaker 2: is so good.

1317
01:05:42,320 --> 01:05:42,880
Speaker 1: I love it.

1318
01:05:42,960 --> 01:05:45,080
Speaker 2: I think the zings are hilarious. I like at the

1319
01:05:45,120 --> 01:05:47,880
Speaker 2: end when it like it really feels like Blake's feelings

1320
01:05:47,920 --> 01:05:50,040
Speaker 2: are hurt that Luis Guzman said, anybody can make it

1321
01:05:50,080 --> 01:05:52,280
Speaker 2: three in the playoffs if you've made twenty nine. Brother,

1322
01:05:53,040 --> 01:05:55,120
Speaker 2: there are a lot of commercials that have Blake Griffin

1323
01:05:55,160 --> 01:05:58,600
Speaker 2: on them right now. He's commercial break Blake every commercial

1324
01:05:58,840 --> 01:06:02,440
Speaker 2: or every break you're getting at and T or Wayfair

1325
01:06:03,160 --> 01:06:07,560
Speaker 2: or Wingstop or this FanDuel one. Of the four that

1326
01:06:07,600 --> 01:06:11,120
Speaker 2: he's got going right now, the FanDuel one is legitimately

1327
01:06:11,160 --> 01:06:12,720
Speaker 2: great and very very funny.

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01:06:13,040 --> 01:06:15,040
Speaker 1: I don't think you're being biased at all, and not

1329
01:06:15,200 --> 01:06:19,360
Speaker 1: because I've actually seen this commercial, but because Blake Griffin's

1330
01:06:19,360 --> 01:06:20,200
Speaker 1: just good in commercials.

1331
01:06:20,600 --> 01:06:22,160
Speaker 2: He is good. He's a good pitch man.

1332
01:06:22,320 --> 01:06:25,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've only seen the Wayfair one. I'm able to

1333
01:06:25,680 --> 01:06:31,160
Speaker 1: watch the NBA in arena feed on NBA dot com

1334
01:06:31,840 --> 01:06:35,160
Speaker 1: suit through lead pass essentially, but even that has stopped

1335
01:06:35,200 --> 01:06:37,560
Speaker 1: in the second round. I don't know why. On Apple

1336
01:06:37,640 --> 01:06:42,480
Speaker 1: it stopped on the actual computer or monitor. It's given

1337
01:06:42,480 --> 01:06:45,520
Speaker 1: me the opportunity, though, to see some more Blake Griffin.

1338
01:06:45,720 --> 01:06:48,280
Speaker 1: And yeah, he's a funny guy. The Wayfair one's good too,

1339
01:06:48,680 --> 01:06:50,160
Speaker 1: So I don't think you're being biased at all.

1340
01:06:50,240 --> 01:06:52,880
Speaker 2: I gotta say, oh, thank you, presented by Fandom and

1341
01:06:53,040 --> 01:06:56,520
Speaker 2: presented this hot takee presented by Fandom. He is just

1342
01:06:56,600 --> 01:07:00,440
Speaker 2: solid twenty nine brother. I think it's so funny. He

1343
01:07:00,520 --> 01:07:04,280
Speaker 2: seems like a guy that would jokingly brag about making

1344
01:07:04,320 --> 01:07:05,920
Speaker 2: twenty nine career playoff threes.

1345
01:07:06,200 --> 01:07:08,440
Speaker 1: So how is Luis Guzman's performance?

1346
01:07:08,720 --> 01:07:11,960
Speaker 2: He does good. Yeah, he does his part as well.

1347
01:07:12,000 --> 01:07:12,640
Speaker 2: Don't you worry?

1348
01:07:15,080 --> 01:07:18,960
Speaker 1: All right, before we get to rapid fire, it's time

1349
01:07:19,000 --> 01:07:22,240
Speaker 1: for a little woboy. It's that line of the night.

1350
01:07:22,320 --> 01:07:27,320
Speaker 1: It's brought to you by Brent Ferrari. Vroom, vroom, our

1351
01:07:27,360 --> 01:07:32,000
Speaker 1: old friend, Brent Ferrari. Brent wrote in this Brent, he

1352
01:07:32,040 --> 01:07:34,840
Speaker 1: wants to call it dough Boy of the Night because

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01:07:34,880 --> 01:07:37,440
Speaker 1: nerd alert. I am a member of the greatest Star

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01:07:37,600 --> 01:07:44,240
Speaker 1: Realms dodgeball team ever assembled. Donut Chop Revivant, affectionately known

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01:07:44,280 --> 01:07:48,560
Speaker 1: as the Donuts. Our captain Carl aka Chasmo is the

1356
01:07:48,720 --> 01:07:52,880
Speaker 1: donut Man himself or is he? I recently learned that Chaz,

1357
01:07:53,480 --> 01:07:55,760
Speaker 1: based outside of Philly, had no idea what a long

1358
01:07:55,880 --> 01:08:02,800
Speaker 1: John was. Apparently long John's aren't a thing in Pennsylvania. Okay, listen, listen,

1359
01:08:03,720 --> 01:08:05,320
Speaker 1: we're gonna get to know the long John here.

1360
01:08:05,600 --> 01:08:07,520
Speaker 2: Just reread these sentences.

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01:08:07,600 --> 01:08:11,320
Speaker 4: Yeah, I know our captain Carl aka Chasmo is the

1362
01:08:11,360 --> 01:08:15,800
Speaker 4: donut Man himself? Or is I recently learned that Chaz

1363
01:08:15,880 --> 01:08:17,920
Speaker 4: had no idea what a long John was.

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01:08:18,120 --> 01:08:20,559
Speaker 1: Chaz doesn't know what a long John is. He's not

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01:08:20,640 --> 01:08:23,360
Speaker 1: the donut man, is he the donut man. He even

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01:08:23,360 --> 01:08:25,679
Speaker 1: went so far as to deny the Long John its

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01:08:25,760 --> 01:08:28,759
Speaker 1: donut status. It was a betrayal that struck our hearts.

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01:08:28,800 --> 01:08:32,439
Speaker 1: I know my North Central and an Illinois boy, Trey

1369
01:08:32,920 --> 01:08:35,640
Speaker 1: was getting those long Johns at Casey's General Store, and

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01:08:35,680 --> 01:08:38,800
Speaker 1: I believe Tim Morton's carried them for the rest of

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01:08:38,840 --> 01:08:42,160
Speaker 1: you lads in plaid well, Brent was was writ and

1372
01:08:42,200 --> 01:08:45,240
Speaker 1: like he was writing a FanDuel commercial here since our

1373
01:08:45,320 --> 01:08:48,160
Speaker 1: Vancouver teammate knew what they were, can you help me

1374
01:08:48,439 --> 01:08:50,880
Speaker 1: get the Long John the respect it deserves as a

1375
01:08:50,920 --> 01:08:55,679
Speaker 1: classic donut. Shout out to the rest of the donuts, John, Juan, Kevin,

1376
01:08:55,720 --> 01:08:57,040
Speaker 1: Phil and Adam.

1377
01:08:57,400 --> 01:09:01,040
Speaker 2: Okay, right, that's a great paragraph.

1378
01:09:01,120 --> 01:09:03,519
Speaker 1: What do you think about long John as a donut?

1379
01:09:03,560 --> 01:09:05,800
Speaker 1: Before we get to the actual stat line of the night.

1380
01:09:06,439 --> 01:09:12,400
Speaker 2: Unfortunately, I gotta say Chasmo makes some good points. No

1381
01:09:12,439 --> 01:09:16,479
Speaker 2: hole and no hole, but a filled donut doesn't have

1382
01:09:16,520 --> 01:09:19,320
Speaker 2: a hole either. But I do think if donuts as

1383
01:09:19,320 --> 01:09:23,400
Speaker 2: circular not stiicular. That being said, uh, you know, yeah,

1384
01:09:23,520 --> 01:09:26,559
Speaker 2: Referrari's right, I have bought a long John from Casey's generals.

1385
01:09:27,280 --> 01:09:31,960
Speaker 2: He's singing my life with his words basically here. So

1386
01:09:32,000 --> 01:09:33,519
Speaker 2: I don't know where do you come in on this, JD.

1387
01:09:33,760 --> 01:09:35,320
Speaker 2: Is a long john a donut?

1388
01:09:36,200 --> 01:09:36,600
Speaker 1: You got a.

1389
01:09:36,680 --> 01:09:37,479
Speaker 2: Yeased to dough?

1390
01:09:37,920 --> 01:09:40,040
Speaker 1: And did you see them at tim Hortons? Because I don't.

1391
01:09:40,120 --> 01:09:43,519
Speaker 1: I mean I've I've seen long donuts before. Yeah, because

1392
01:09:43,520 --> 01:09:44,280
Speaker 1: it is a long door.

1393
01:09:44,360 --> 01:09:47,120
Speaker 5: I've never heard them referred to as a long john

1394
01:09:47,320 --> 01:09:47,800
Speaker 5: before that.

1395
01:09:48,360 --> 01:09:50,880
Speaker 1: They were called that at Tim Horton's. I do believe

1396
01:09:50,920 --> 01:09:53,360
Speaker 1: for a while they discontinued them. And for the people

1397
01:09:53,360 --> 01:09:55,240
Speaker 1: out there who don't know what a long john is,

1398
01:09:55,880 --> 01:09:58,040
Speaker 1: because I'm sure some people don't know, it's more of

1399
01:09:58,160 --> 01:10:02,600
Speaker 1: like an A Claire sort of thing. Yes, yes, yeah,

1400
01:10:02,880 --> 01:10:06,040
Speaker 1: but the word donut is yeah, I understand where Chaz

1401
01:10:06,120 --> 01:10:11,040
Speaker 1: is going. Yeah, it's not a classic, not classic.

1402
01:10:11,120 --> 01:10:11,439
Speaker 2: I like it.

1403
01:10:11,560 --> 01:10:16,440
Speaker 5: I like a hole, like you say, Trey, Yeah.

1404
01:10:16,080 --> 01:10:17,760
Speaker 2: Like I love a hole.

1405
01:10:17,880 --> 01:10:21,920
Speaker 1: Yeah. And let and to get into the nerd, the

1406
01:10:21,920 --> 01:10:24,240
Speaker 1: nerd side of things here as far as donuts go,

1407
01:10:25,320 --> 01:10:27,759
Speaker 1: some people say, you know, the chocolate dip is basically

1408
01:10:27,920 --> 01:10:30,840
Speaker 1: basically the equivalently because apparently. Sometimes the Long John's are

1409
01:10:30,920 --> 01:10:33,920
Speaker 1: just chocolate on top of sure, and there ain't no

1410
01:10:34,800 --> 01:10:39,400
Speaker 1: cream on the inside. Sometimes so too much dough Okay,

1411
01:10:39,840 --> 01:10:42,479
Speaker 1: that's enough, that's enough doughnut talk. Is the doe boy

1412
01:10:42,479 --> 01:10:44,120
Speaker 1: of the night, though it is the dobone of the

1413
01:10:44,200 --> 01:10:48,400
Speaker 1: night for you, Brent Ferrari and for all of the

1414
01:10:48,400 --> 01:10:51,719
Speaker 1: rest of the donuts, John, Juan, Kevin, Jill and Adam,

1415
01:10:51,760 --> 01:10:53,280
Speaker 1: but not you, Chazz.

1416
01:10:55,200 --> 01:10:58,519
Speaker 2: Captain, carl A Ka, Chas Moth. He's the donut man

1417
01:10:58,600 --> 01:11:00,080
Speaker 2: himself or is he?

1418
01:11:00,720 --> 01:11:04,559
Speaker 1: Stat of the night goes to Chas Holmgren chet Holmgrin

1419
01:11:04,640 --> 01:11:07,599
Speaker 1: had twenty two points, nine boards, three assists, four steals,

1420
01:11:07,600 --> 01:11:11,479
Speaker 1: two blocks. It was hard to say because he did

1421
01:11:11,479 --> 01:11:14,240
Speaker 1: a lot. Three of those blocks or excuse me, three

1422
01:11:14,240 --> 01:11:18,400
Speaker 1: of those boards were offensive three threes to get into

1423
01:11:18,439 --> 01:11:22,639
Speaker 1: it even more to turnovers. Oh, it's a nice dessert

1424
01:11:22,680 --> 01:11:26,200
Speaker 1: as well. Turnovers, turnovers not a donut. That's not a donut.

1425
01:11:26,880 --> 01:11:30,280
Speaker 2: That's been so good man. Yeah, I think he's been

1426
01:11:30,320 --> 01:11:33,679
Speaker 2: thunder best player this round so far, this round. Yeah,

1427
01:11:33,720 --> 01:11:36,200
Speaker 2: I mean credit to the Lakers for taking Shay out

1428
01:11:36,200 --> 01:11:37,759
Speaker 2: of the game a little bit. I mean he's still

1429
01:11:37,880 --> 01:11:41,000
Speaker 2: scoring twenty a game. But that's quite the departure from

1430
01:11:41,000 --> 01:11:43,920
Speaker 2: what we saw from SGA during the regular season, and

1431
01:11:44,040 --> 01:11:47,519
Speaker 2: Chet has really stepped up from an offensive standpoint. We

1432
01:11:47,560 --> 01:11:49,120
Speaker 2: know he's going to bring it on the defensive ends

1433
01:11:49,160 --> 01:11:53,519
Speaker 2: stick six stocks there, but his shooting, his activity on

1434
01:11:53,560 --> 01:11:55,440
Speaker 2: the offensive class, he's been incredible.

1435
01:11:55,800 --> 01:11:58,280
Speaker 1: And this has been his best playoffs. You know, it's

1436
01:11:58,280 --> 01:12:01,080
Speaker 1: only six games in, but it's better than what he

1437
01:12:01,120 --> 01:12:05,120
Speaker 1: was able to accomplish for the entirety of the finals run.

1438
01:12:05,240 --> 01:12:08,880
Speaker 1: He's doing way more shooting, way more efficiently. That's so scary.

1439
01:12:10,120 --> 01:12:15,280
Speaker 1: Moving on to our Substack founding members, Well, member, we

1440
01:12:15,360 --> 01:12:19,360
Speaker 1: had one new one. Thank you to Nick Gordon.

1441
01:12:19,640 --> 01:12:20,000
Speaker 3: Nick.

1442
01:12:20,760 --> 01:12:26,200
Speaker 1: Here is your red carpet you Nick, it's a it's

1443
01:12:26,200 --> 01:12:31,040
Speaker 1: a wonderful effect here or graphic, you know the intro

1444
01:12:31,160 --> 01:12:34,639
Speaker 1: here that you got JD where Nick Gordon is walking

1445
01:12:34,680 --> 01:12:38,160
Speaker 1: down the red carpet, not the actual Nick Gordon but

1446
01:12:38,280 --> 01:12:41,120
Speaker 1: his name. So thank you Nick for jumping on substack

1447
01:12:41,160 --> 01:12:46,360
Speaker 1: and becoming a founding member of our page. Very much

1448
01:12:46,600 --> 01:12:51,320
Speaker 1: respect it and appreciated. Moving on to our rapid fire

1449
01:12:51,439 --> 01:12:54,840
Speaker 1: fun Yeah, baby, JD. You got the questions, we got

1450
01:12:54,840 --> 01:12:56,640
Speaker 1: the answers, and so do you sucker.

1451
01:12:57,000 --> 01:12:59,760
Speaker 6: Yes, I have the questions, I have the fader on

1452
01:12:59,800 --> 01:13:03,200
Speaker 6: the music and here we go. Timothy Shalla May posted

1453
01:13:03,240 --> 01:13:06,080
Speaker 6: a video of himself on Instagram draining a three in

1454
01:13:06,120 --> 01:13:10,439
Speaker 6: an empty Madison Square garden. The Knicks replied to the

1455
01:13:10,439 --> 01:13:14,360
Speaker 6: post quote, check your DMS. We just sent you a

1456
01:13:14,520 --> 01:13:20,120
Speaker 6: ten day Wow. Guys, what celebrity are you signing for

1457
01:13:20,320 --> 01:13:22,280
Speaker 6: your rec league team for a week?

1458
01:13:22,439 --> 01:13:24,240
Speaker 5: Tessie the Rock.

1459
01:13:25,120 --> 01:13:26,679
Speaker 1: I had to think about this for a long time,

1460
01:13:27,680 --> 01:13:30,000
Speaker 1: but I am curious just to see if the Rock

1461
01:13:30,040 --> 01:13:35,280
Speaker 1: can play basketball because he's an athlete obviously, you know,

1462
01:13:35,560 --> 01:13:40,000
Speaker 1: great in the ring, great on a football field. But

1463
01:13:40,120 --> 01:13:42,280
Speaker 1: can he play basketball? I mean I didn't go and

1464
01:13:42,320 --> 01:13:45,840
Speaker 1: search the web to see if I've ever seen but

1465
01:13:45,920 --> 01:13:49,880
Speaker 1: he's also is he too big to play basketball? He's

1466
01:13:49,880 --> 01:13:54,120
Speaker 1: too muscular to have flexibility.

1467
01:13:54,840 --> 01:13:56,800
Speaker 5: Have you ever seen his arms over his head?

1468
01:13:56,960 --> 01:13:59,479
Speaker 2: That's a great question. Could he get the ball up right?

1469
01:14:00,040 --> 01:14:02,200
Speaker 1: Those big old del I don't know. I mean, you've

1470
01:14:02,240 --> 01:14:05,240
Speaker 1: watched more movies of the Rock than I have. It's

1471
01:14:05,320 --> 01:14:06,719
Speaker 1: probably put some names in.

1472
01:14:07,800 --> 01:14:08,599
Speaker 5: On on the screen.

1473
01:14:08,640 --> 01:14:12,040
Speaker 6: He's in incredible shape, but I've never seen him.

1474
01:14:12,320 --> 01:14:14,240
Speaker 5: I don't think I've ever seen him throw anything.

1475
01:14:15,040 --> 01:14:18,639
Speaker 1: Huh yeah, in in football. When he went to college,

1476
01:14:18,680 --> 01:14:22,080
Speaker 1: she was a linebacker. Yeah, I think so. So he

1477
01:14:22,160 --> 01:14:25,280
Speaker 1: wasn't throwing. I mean, he wasn't part of the offense.

1478
01:14:26,280 --> 01:14:31,920
Speaker 2: There are photos of him touching of basketball. I can

1479
01:14:31,960 --> 01:14:35,880
Speaker 2: guarantee that Dwayne Johnson has held a basketball in his life.

1480
01:14:36,000 --> 01:14:40,639
Speaker 1: But about an NBA game, I don't think great.

1481
01:14:40,680 --> 01:14:43,880
Speaker 2: I don't know if I have either. He's had a

1482
01:14:43,880 --> 01:14:46,760
Speaker 2: lot of movies. But you know, in general, like at

1483
01:14:46,840 --> 01:14:50,880
Speaker 2: least for American sports like wrestling and basketball same time,

1484
01:14:50,960 --> 01:14:54,040
Speaker 2: so you're kind of choosing one or the other. Wrestlers

1485
01:14:54,040 --> 01:14:55,839
Speaker 2: don't always translate to basketball players.

1486
01:14:55,840 --> 01:14:58,280
Speaker 1: Oh, like you're saying in high school.

1487
01:14:58,400 --> 01:15:00,680
Speaker 2: You're saying, I assume it wrest in high school. I

1488
01:15:00,680 --> 01:15:01,000
Speaker 2: don't know.

1489
01:15:01,040 --> 01:15:05,040
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I gotta assume that. But that's the calendar

1490
01:15:05,080 --> 01:15:09,160
Speaker 1: in high school. They cross over. Yeah, winter sports. Yeah okay,

1491
01:15:09,600 --> 01:15:10,400
Speaker 1: but interesting to see.

1492
01:15:10,439 --> 01:15:13,920
Speaker 2: That's what such a nice screen he shut on the glass,

1493
01:15:13,920 --> 01:15:15,599
Speaker 2: that's for sure. Yeah, he's got his skills.

1494
01:15:15,720 --> 01:15:19,960
Speaker 1: He's got skills to uh Trey Adam Sandler.

1495
01:15:20,439 --> 01:15:22,599
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, this is the guy that you know see

1496
01:15:22,680 --> 01:15:25,679
Speaker 2: playing at the park sometimes even with Timothy Shallome himself.

1497
01:15:26,720 --> 01:15:28,400
Speaker 2: That's a guy that I never thought would be in

1498
01:15:28,400 --> 01:15:30,640
Speaker 2: my life for thirty years. I think he's doing red

1499
01:15:30,680 --> 01:15:33,559
Speaker 2: hooded sweatshirt on Saturday. Laugh hilarious. So I was laughing

1500
01:15:33,600 --> 01:15:36,040
Speaker 2: a lot. But then he like made some movies that

1501
01:15:36,080 --> 01:15:38,320
Speaker 2: I loved when I was young, and then he made

1502
01:15:38,360 --> 01:15:41,920
Speaker 2: some movies that I hated while I was less young,

1503
01:15:42,000 --> 01:15:43,760
Speaker 2: and then he made some movies that I love when

1504
01:15:43,800 --> 01:15:46,360
Speaker 2: I was old. So he's stuck around and he stayed

1505
01:15:46,360 --> 01:15:48,479
Speaker 2: on the court. Only guy that I've ever seen playing

1506
01:15:48,600 --> 01:15:51,960
Speaker 2: like a button down shirt. That sounds like it'd be fun.

1507
01:15:52,760 --> 01:15:53,839
Speaker 5: Wow, how ironic.

1508
01:15:53,880 --> 01:15:56,479
Speaker 6: He plays basketball and a button down but he shows

1509
01:15:56,560 --> 01:15:59,959
Speaker 6: up to everything in basketball gear, right like the Oscars.

1510
01:16:00,160 --> 01:16:02,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, you don't know what to expect from him.

1511
01:16:03,160 --> 01:16:07,000
Speaker 6: Guy's a mogul for me. I don't play basketball, as

1512
01:16:07,080 --> 01:16:08,680
Speaker 6: you know, but I do play pickleball. I have a

1513
01:16:08,720 --> 01:16:15,320
Speaker 6: pickleball league, so I you know, Jamie Fox plays pickleball,

1514
01:16:15,360 --> 01:16:20,400
Speaker 6: but I've seen him play. I think I could beat him, honestly, Sorry,

1515
01:16:20,479 --> 01:16:21,400
Speaker 6: Jamie Wow.

1516
01:16:22,240 --> 01:16:25,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, but that'd be cool. I beat Jamie Fox, I know.

1517
01:16:25,240 --> 01:16:27,719
Speaker 5: Yeah, but I want him on my team. Yeah, I'm looking.

1518
01:16:27,800 --> 01:16:30,720
Speaker 6: I'm scouting for somebody to like a ringer sort of thing.

1519
01:16:31,360 --> 01:16:34,240
Speaker 6: So I'm going to Leonardo DiCaprio, who I have not

1520
01:16:34,360 --> 01:16:36,960
Speaker 6: seen play, but rumor has it he's very good.

1521
01:16:37,760 --> 01:16:40,599
Speaker 1: Nice Sam, Are you taking Jamie Fox one on one?

1522
01:16:41,160 --> 01:16:42,920
Speaker 1: Is that how you're going to beat him? No?

1523
01:16:42,800 --> 01:16:44,439
Speaker 5: No, no partner?

1524
01:16:44,640 --> 01:16:48,240
Speaker 1: Okay for sure. And how's the how's the team doing

1525
01:16:48,280 --> 01:16:49,080
Speaker 1: its playoffs? Right?

1526
01:16:50,120 --> 01:16:58,760
Speaker 6: Yeah, we'll get to that in my third answer, right, cool? Okay, yeah,

1527
01:16:58,840 --> 01:17:03,480
Speaker 6: next one. In the meantime, New York Basketball tweeted a photo.

1528
01:17:04,720 --> 01:17:05,679
Speaker 5: I have it here.

1529
01:17:07,439 --> 01:17:12,240
Speaker 6: Of Larry Johnson, John Starks, Patrick Ewing, and Bernard King

1530
01:17:12,360 --> 01:17:15,760
Speaker 6: sitting courtside in the next game. But behind them is

1531
01:17:15,800 --> 01:17:20,439
Speaker 6: some random dude in a backwards cap, staring dead into

1532
01:17:20,479 --> 01:17:27,400
Speaker 6: the camera like he absolutely belongs at Captain Pearl NYC NYK.

1533
01:17:27,600 --> 01:17:27,920
Speaker 5: Sorry.

1534
01:17:28,000 --> 01:17:30,840
Speaker 6: I retweeted it with a caption, if I'm bro with

1535
01:17:30,920 --> 01:17:34,280
Speaker 6: the backwards hat, this is getting framed in my house. Guys,

1536
01:17:34,439 --> 01:17:38,040
Speaker 6: what four legends would you most want to photobomb for

1537
01:17:38,160 --> 01:17:40,320
Speaker 6: a frameworthy picture in your house?

1538
01:17:40,400 --> 01:17:40,759
Speaker 5: Tasty?

1539
01:17:41,439 --> 01:17:45,559
Speaker 1: Great question. I need something more Canadian in my house,

1540
01:17:47,040 --> 01:17:50,120
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna have the bare naked ladies in front

1541
01:17:50,120 --> 01:17:50,320
Speaker 1: of me.

1542
01:17:50,800 --> 01:17:53,559
Speaker 5: Now, Stephen Page in there, Stephen Page there.

1543
01:17:53,600 --> 01:17:55,520
Speaker 1: That was the first thing I was going to say,

1544
01:17:55,720 --> 01:17:57,160
Speaker 1: Do you think that's important.

1545
01:17:56,960 --> 01:17:57,679
Speaker 5: Yes, I do.

1546
01:17:57,800 --> 01:18:00,840
Speaker 2: Okay, gotta have him the lead singer, is that right?

1547
01:18:00,920 --> 01:18:04,040
Speaker 6: He was, but he left what he put on clothes.

1548
01:18:04,960 --> 01:18:06,880
Speaker 6: He put on clothes out there.

1549
01:18:06,960 --> 01:18:08,760
Speaker 1: Guy's been going for like twenty years.

1550
01:18:08,479 --> 01:18:12,679
Speaker 5: Maybe ten years, maybe twenty actually, yeah.

1551
01:18:12,479 --> 01:18:16,400
Speaker 1: Something like that for long maybe seventh whatever, but very

1552
01:18:16,520 --> 01:18:20,920
Speaker 1: very important. Ed Robertson, Tyler Stewart, and then Jim Kreagan

1553
01:18:20,960 --> 01:18:24,320
Speaker 1: would be my fourth. All right, sorry Kevin Hearn. When

1554
01:18:24,360 --> 01:18:27,519
Speaker 1: I had to cut somebody, there's only four people, but

1555
01:18:27,560 --> 01:18:31,479
Speaker 1: you can probably squeeze in Kevin. So yeah, I'm happy

1556
01:18:31,520 --> 01:18:31,800
Speaker 1: with that.

1557
01:18:31,800 --> 01:18:34,559
Speaker 2: That's a good one. Yeah. Uh for me, it would

1558
01:18:34,560 --> 01:18:37,759
Speaker 2: be the cast of Oceudents eleven. Maybe they get together

1559
01:18:37,880 --> 01:18:42,280
Speaker 2: to one last Heistan or something. So uh, Pitt Damon

1560
01:18:42,360 --> 01:18:46,280
Speaker 2: Clooney me just walking into the background as well as

1561
01:18:46,280 --> 01:18:47,880
Speaker 2: he part of the crew. I don't know. I wasn't

1562
01:18:47,880 --> 01:18:50,200
Speaker 2: sure who to picked for a fourth Janie. Who's the

1563
01:18:50,200 --> 01:18:53,280
Speaker 2: most legendary of the rest of the Ocean's eleven crew,

1564
01:18:53,880 --> 01:18:56,120
Speaker 2: Like I would have chosen Bernie mac but rip.

1565
01:18:56,120 --> 01:18:58,479
Speaker 5: Yeah, what about Cheetle Cheatle was high on the list.

1566
01:18:58,680 --> 01:19:01,639
Speaker 2: Yeah, Elliott Gold is a longtime legends.

1567
01:19:01,680 --> 01:19:02,360
Speaker 1: He's still alive.

1568
01:19:02,520 --> 01:19:03,519
Speaker 5: He must be alive.

1569
01:19:04,160 --> 01:19:08,800
Speaker 2: Great question. I don't know, but yeah, so I mostly

1570
01:19:08,840 --> 01:19:12,240
Speaker 2: want Pitt, Damon and Clooney, but yeah, yeah, anybody else.

1571
01:19:12,560 --> 01:19:13,879
Speaker 2: I'll even take Scott con.

1572
01:19:14,720 --> 01:19:18,280
Speaker 1: Sure, man. I thought I thought about Clooney for a

1573
01:19:18,280 --> 01:19:20,040
Speaker 1: while here. I thought he could be on my wreck

1574
01:19:20,120 --> 01:19:21,880
Speaker 1: team for some reason. I don't know why.

1575
01:19:21,920 --> 01:19:26,840
Speaker 2: He was part of Basketball Player. Yeah, good pickup game

1576
01:19:26,920 --> 01:19:27,280
Speaker 2: or something.

1577
01:19:27,600 --> 01:19:32,320
Speaker 5: We got a prequel coming up as well, I believe questions. Prequel. Yeah,

1578
01:19:33,240 --> 01:19:34,120
Speaker 5: just what we needed.

1579
01:19:34,160 --> 01:19:34,400
Speaker 1: Guys.

1580
01:19:34,400 --> 01:19:36,639
Speaker 2: I'm wondering what Danny Ocean was up to before. All

1581
01:19:36,680 --> 01:19:39,559
Speaker 2: that means me, I guess we'll see.

1582
01:19:39,840 --> 01:19:43,440
Speaker 6: Who are your photobom I am photo bombing Zoey Kravitz,

1583
01:19:43,520 --> 01:19:45,759
Speaker 6: Michelle Pfiffer and Hathaway and Halle Berry.

1584
01:19:45,760 --> 01:19:46,960
Speaker 5: What do they all have in common?

1585
01:19:47,000 --> 01:19:52,360
Speaker 6: You may ask anyone anyone, same again, Zoe Kravitz, Michelle Pfiffer,

1586
01:19:52,840 --> 01:19:55,040
Speaker 6: Ann Hathaway, and Halle Berry.

1587
01:19:55,680 --> 01:19:57,200
Speaker 2: They are all catwomen.

1588
01:19:57,240 --> 01:19:59,519
Speaker 5: There are all catwomen. Very good, Trey.

1589
01:20:01,520 --> 01:20:05,760
Speaker 6: Yeah, and then just me in the background, like the

1590
01:20:05,800 --> 01:20:07,160
Speaker 6: backwards hat guy.

1591
01:20:08,640 --> 01:20:09,679
Speaker 5: That's such a great photo.

1592
01:20:09,760 --> 01:20:13,080
Speaker 2: That is so funny. That's really really good.

1593
01:20:13,320 --> 01:20:14,240
Speaker 5: I would frame that too.

1594
01:20:14,479 --> 01:20:18,000
Speaker 6: Okay, last one, guys, we had a pigeon at MSG

1595
01:20:18,120 --> 01:20:22,640
Speaker 6: this week. These are all MSG related figure and it

1596
01:20:22,680 --> 01:20:25,960
Speaker 6: fell to Andre dum Drummond to dislodge the ball from

1597
01:20:26,000 --> 01:20:30,200
Speaker 6: the top of the stanchion. He failed spectacularly, The booze

1598
01:20:30,280 --> 01:20:33,800
Speaker 6: rained down, and Carl Anthony Towns eventually had to step

1599
01:20:33,920 --> 01:20:37,120
Speaker 6: up and handle the operation. Guys, when's the time you

1600
01:20:37,200 --> 01:20:38,479
Speaker 6: had to bail someone out?

1601
01:20:38,600 --> 01:20:39,040
Speaker 5: Tasks?

1602
01:20:40,760 --> 01:20:44,760
Speaker 1: Well, I was in Cleveland. Actually, we went to a

1603
01:20:44,920 --> 01:20:50,760
Speaker 1: Raptors Caves basketball game a long long time ago, regular season. Yeah. Yeah, yeah,

1604
01:20:50,960 --> 01:20:54,599
Speaker 1: with some friends and we all got separated and at

1605
01:20:54,640 --> 01:20:59,280
Speaker 1: some point we couldn't find one of our friends because

1606
01:20:59,280 --> 01:21:03,680
Speaker 1: he was taking away to the drunk tank. So so

1607
01:21:03,760 --> 01:21:07,560
Speaker 1: the night just went uh and uh.

1608
01:21:07,560 --> 01:21:11,000
Speaker 6: I think in the evening quicker than a friend getting

1609
01:21:11,320 --> 01:21:11,960
Speaker 6: thrown into the.

1610
01:21:12,000 --> 01:21:16,639
Speaker 1: Game in Cleveland and another country at the time, being

1611
01:21:17,240 --> 01:21:20,479
Speaker 1: Canadian at the time, so that was different. But he

1612
01:21:20,600 --> 01:21:21,280
Speaker 1: got out.

1613
01:21:21,760 --> 01:21:22,519
Speaker 5: You bailed him up?

1614
01:21:23,080 --> 01:21:25,400
Speaker 1: Yeah, the other guys really did. I said, screw that.

1615
01:21:25,439 --> 01:21:26,880
Speaker 1: I'm not going to bail him up. No, I didn't

1616
01:21:26,880 --> 01:21:29,759
Speaker 1: say that. But the other I was there. They weren't

1617
01:21:29,760 --> 01:21:33,480
Speaker 1: close friends, so they were they were more actual friends

1618
01:21:33,560 --> 01:21:37,719
Speaker 1: with this guy. I was just there. I was just there.

1619
01:21:37,800 --> 01:21:41,080
Speaker 1: I was I was kenjiong and hangover, you know, like

1620
01:21:41,160 --> 01:21:48,200
Speaker 1: I was there naked in a trunk right right. But

1621
01:21:48,640 --> 01:21:51,160
Speaker 1: he got out and then we're all everybody else was

1622
01:21:51,360 --> 01:21:53,719
Speaker 1: Then we all went and got depressed in our hotel

1623
01:21:53,840 --> 01:21:57,639
Speaker 1: room waiting for him to get out. So, sad, are

1624
01:21:57,640 --> 01:21:59,719
Speaker 1: you friends with this guy? I was never really friends

1625
01:21:59,720 --> 01:22:01,559
Speaker 1: with me. So I was friends with the one guy

1626
01:22:01,600 --> 01:22:06,320
Speaker 1: that led the led the whole trip, And no, I'm

1627
01:22:06,360 --> 01:22:10,760
Speaker 1: not friends with him. Skeets would like this story. I'm

1628
01:22:10,800 --> 01:22:12,880
Speaker 1: not going to say anybody's names, but we would say

1629
01:22:12,920 --> 01:22:16,120
Speaker 1: it off the air and he would say, oh, yeah, okay,

1630
01:22:16,240 --> 01:22:24,479
Speaker 1: sucks you didn't like him. Yeah, anyways, we'll stop there.

1631
01:22:25,000 --> 01:22:29,040
Speaker 2: But yeah, it's important to have one friend of your

1632
01:22:29,160 --> 01:22:33,240
Speaker 2: friends that you actually hate veryant not back at.

1633
01:22:34,600 --> 01:22:36,200
Speaker 5: Trey, when was the last time you had to bail

1634
01:22:36,280 --> 01:22:36,760
Speaker 5: someone out?

1635
01:22:37,200 --> 01:22:41,879
Speaker 2: Not someone, but something. Back when we still had Wilbur,

1636
01:22:41,920 --> 01:22:45,599
Speaker 2: he would sometimes attack animals, small critters in our backyard,

1637
01:22:45,640 --> 01:22:49,400
Speaker 2: and one time he tried to attack a baby squirrel

1638
01:22:49,800 --> 01:22:52,120
Speaker 2: maybe did a little damage. So the squirrel was struggling

1639
01:22:52,400 --> 01:22:55,720
Speaker 2: and Laura made me sit out in a chair to

1640
01:22:55,760 --> 01:22:58,160
Speaker 2: protect the baby squirrel because she was worried that like

1641
01:22:58,240 --> 01:23:01,240
Speaker 2: Wilbur would come back and try and finished the job

1642
01:23:01,360 --> 01:23:04,880
Speaker 2: or something. Yeah, So I sat and baby sat this

1643
01:23:04,960 --> 01:23:07,200
Speaker 2: squirrel for probably half an hour.

1644
01:23:07,800 --> 01:23:10,160
Speaker 5: Wow, where was the squirrels just in your yard?

1645
01:23:10,160 --> 01:23:12,600
Speaker 2: It was just like limping around in the backyard, you know.

1646
01:23:12,720 --> 01:23:14,000
Speaker 2: So I was just keeping an eye on to make

1647
01:23:14,040 --> 01:23:19,519
Speaker 2: sure we'll wilbyeh yeh. You know, like I left and

1648
01:23:19,600 --> 01:23:20,960
Speaker 2: surely that squirrel is totally fine.

1649
01:23:20,960 --> 01:23:23,400
Speaker 5: There was no other predators out there, right, Oh no.

1650
01:23:23,400 --> 01:23:27,360
Speaker 2: Nothing bad could happen this squirrel that's injured without me watching.

1651
01:23:27,360 --> 01:23:31,240
Speaker 2: I'm sure. I'm sure it existed continue to live after that.

1652
01:23:31,360 --> 01:23:34,160
Speaker 2: But I was trying to do my part because we

1653
01:23:34,160 --> 01:23:37,559
Speaker 2: don't have enough squirrels around here. We're really lacking.

1654
01:23:37,680 --> 01:23:38,200
Speaker 1: That's right.

1655
01:23:39,120 --> 01:23:41,799
Speaker 6: It's just a matter of time before this this studio

1656
01:23:41,960 --> 01:23:44,320
Speaker 6: just shuts down on the air because the squirrel has

1657
01:23:44,479 --> 01:23:45,360
Speaker 6: nod through.

1658
01:23:45,960 --> 01:23:50,000
Speaker 1: Oh yeah the power. Oh yeah yeah.

1659
01:23:50,560 --> 01:23:52,519
Speaker 5: And when that happens, I'm going to just assume it's

1660
01:23:52,560 --> 01:23:53,640
Speaker 5: that squirrel.

1661
01:23:56,560 --> 01:23:57,280
Speaker 2: Trying to find me.

1662
01:23:58,760 --> 01:23:59,320
Speaker 5: Yeah.

1663
01:23:59,320 --> 01:24:00,920
Speaker 6: So the last time I had to bail someone out

1664
01:24:01,040 --> 01:24:04,080
Speaker 6: was this Monday. Guys, we were talking about how I

1665
01:24:04,200 --> 01:24:06,920
Speaker 6: was very scared that they were going to play me

1666
01:24:06,960 --> 01:24:10,800
Speaker 6: in our pickleball playoffs, and I play. They did play

1667
01:24:10,800 --> 01:24:14,679
Speaker 6: me with Rachel, who is by far, she's s tier

1668
01:24:14,720 --> 01:24:17,120
Speaker 6: on the team. I'm like ce tier on the team.

1669
01:24:17,240 --> 01:24:21,360
Speaker 6: But we usually played pretty well together. But she was

1670
01:24:21,680 --> 01:24:25,559
Speaker 6: not having a great night. So I had to bail

1671
01:24:25,560 --> 01:24:28,760
Speaker 6: her out and we won. We won, We won two

1672
01:24:28,840 --> 01:24:32,439
Speaker 6: out of three. I was like standing on my head

1673
01:24:32,600 --> 01:24:35,639
Speaker 6: like a goalie, you know, just walking those shots back

1674
01:24:35,680 --> 01:24:39,280
Speaker 6: and forth. And now we're in the semis and thankfully

1675
01:24:39,360 --> 01:24:40,360
Speaker 6: they are not playing me.

1676
01:24:40,479 --> 01:24:42,719
Speaker 5: But she would even admit she would.

1677
01:24:43,000 --> 01:24:44,720
Speaker 6: I asked her before we came on, like, is it

1678
01:24:44,760 --> 01:24:47,920
Speaker 6: okay if I tell them how you basically shit the

1679
01:24:47,920 --> 01:24:52,519
Speaker 6: bed on Monday. He's like, yeah, it's fine, it's fine,

1680
01:24:52,720 --> 01:24:55,760
Speaker 6: because but basically they iced her out right like they

1681
01:24:55,920 --> 01:24:58,080
Speaker 6: I think they did some scouting and they knew right

1682
01:24:58,080 --> 01:25:00,800
Speaker 6: away that she was by far the better player, so.

1683
01:25:00,800 --> 01:25:01,560
Speaker 5: They just target me.

1684
01:25:02,280 --> 01:25:04,840
Speaker 6: And then you know, when that happens, she a gets

1685
01:25:04,920 --> 01:25:07,680
Speaker 6: kind of mad about it, and b she started her

1686
01:25:07,800 --> 01:25:10,679
Speaker 6: she's not locked in, so then when the ball does come.

1687
01:25:10,560 --> 01:25:12,200
Speaker 5: To her, she she struggles, you know.

1688
01:25:12,400 --> 01:25:15,559
Speaker 6: So but I bailed her out and we're in the

1689
01:25:15,560 --> 01:25:16,719
Speaker 6: semis and it's huge.

1690
01:25:16,720 --> 01:25:19,000
Speaker 2: That's like a clutch playoff performance.

1691
01:25:19,400 --> 01:25:23,360
Speaker 6: Yeah, game planning against Rachel, people were like, I have

1692
01:25:23,479 --> 01:25:26,719
Speaker 6: never seen you play like that, Like you're like diving

1693
01:25:26,720 --> 01:25:27,639
Speaker 6: all over the totally.

1694
01:25:27,720 --> 01:25:27,920
Speaker 5: Yeah.

1695
01:25:28,120 --> 01:25:32,120
Speaker 6: I was just hitting everything, like the shots that normally

1696
01:25:32,200 --> 01:25:34,400
Speaker 6: just goed right into the net or fly off out

1697
01:25:34,400 --> 01:25:34,840
Speaker 6: of the court.

1698
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Speaker 5: I was just hitting. It was just everything came in

1699
01:25:37,760 --> 01:25:38,080
Speaker 5: the scene.

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01:25:38,479 --> 01:25:42,320
Speaker 1: Wow. So and so why not why are you not

1701
01:25:42,360 --> 01:25:43,960
Speaker 1: playing the semifinal.

1702
01:25:43,479 --> 01:25:46,360
Speaker 5: Because I'm not that I'm still not that good.

1703
01:25:48,160 --> 01:25:52,120
Speaker 6: Yeah, she's in, and she's she has her normal partner

1704
01:25:52,200 --> 01:25:55,040
Speaker 6: with with the team, and he is much much better.

1705
01:25:55,160 --> 01:25:57,800
Speaker 5: So that's fine. I'm gonna be there.

1706
01:25:57,880 --> 01:25:58,760
Speaker 2: Sounds like you did your part.

1707
01:25:58,920 --> 01:25:59,519
Speaker 5: I did my part.

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01:25:59,600 --> 01:26:03,400
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're in the semis, one step away from city finals.

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01:26:04,840 --> 01:26:06,080
Speaker 5: Everybody's very excited.

1710
01:26:07,200 --> 01:26:09,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, like, how big of a tournament is it?

1711
01:26:09,479 --> 01:26:12,280
Speaker 5: I mean it's final so it's like the city wide

1712
01:26:12,360 --> 01:26:15,080
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, good.

1713
01:26:15,120 --> 01:26:18,560
Speaker 1: Look, Well we'll save save this for the pickleball podcast

1714
01:26:18,600 --> 01:26:21,040
Speaker 1: that you get back at. But I do want to know, no,

1715
01:26:21,800 --> 01:26:26,960
Speaker 1: this part is somebody picked out a lot of the

1716
01:26:26,960 --> 01:26:29,559
Speaker 1: time in doubles because yeah, yeah, you always go after

1717
01:26:29,600 --> 01:26:32,240
Speaker 1: the weaker player, yeah yeah, and then what is the

1718
01:26:32,240 --> 01:26:35,360
Speaker 1: other the strong player? They basically just have to either

1719
01:26:35,439 --> 01:26:37,760
Speaker 1: sit there and wait for it to come to them

1720
01:26:37,840 --> 01:26:40,840
Speaker 1: or they get aggressive and then they cover, they cover

1721
01:26:41,439 --> 01:26:43,680
Speaker 1: the other side, and then that's what you exploit, that

1722
01:26:43,720 --> 01:26:45,479
Speaker 1: weakness on the on their backhand.

1723
01:26:46,240 --> 01:26:49,320
Speaker 6: It's all very involved, but a lot of strategy. It

1724
01:26:49,320 --> 01:26:51,480
Speaker 6: sounds like there is definitely strategy.

1725
01:26:51,640 --> 01:26:54,720
Speaker 1: Well, thank you for all those answers, because we went

1726
01:26:55,840 --> 01:26:57,840
Speaker 1: to air and you are still wondering, Oh, I don't

1727
01:26:57,840 --> 01:27:02,960
Speaker 1: have an answer for a particular whole questions and then boom,

1728
01:27:03,160 --> 01:27:05,080
Speaker 1: three big ones, three big answer.

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01:27:05,280 --> 01:27:08,080
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, I forgot that. I had to answer that

1730
01:27:08,120 --> 01:27:09,160
Speaker 6: because Skeets.

1731
01:27:08,960 --> 01:27:17,280
Speaker 1: Wasn't Jamie, you're just reading the Catwoman photo.

1732
01:27:17,520 --> 01:27:17,720
Speaker 5: Yeah.

1733
01:27:17,800 --> 01:27:19,960
Speaker 6: We started with Hathaway and I'm like, what else? What

1734
01:27:20,000 --> 01:27:23,120
Speaker 6: can I do with Hathaway? And then I built around.

1735
01:27:22,760 --> 01:27:26,080
Speaker 1: Her Who's who's also ms? She related she.

1736
01:27:28,400 --> 01:27:31,000
Speaker 6: Had a scene with Karl Anthony town on the latest

1737
01:27:31,240 --> 01:27:32,240
Speaker 6: Double the Worst Product.

1738
01:27:32,520 --> 01:27:34,120
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, how was it?

1739
01:27:34,120 --> 01:27:36,519
Speaker 5: It's fun? I mean, I gave my bums down.

1740
01:27:36,680 --> 01:27:40,160
Speaker 1: But the movie, the movie, it was good, but I

1741
01:27:40,240 --> 01:27:41,240
Speaker 1: gave it a story.

1742
01:27:41,280 --> 01:27:42,760
Speaker 5: And I don't know if you like that ship the

1743
01:27:45,560 --> 01:27:46,400
Speaker 5: first one is great.

1744
01:27:48,840 --> 01:27:53,080
Speaker 1: Okay, Well that's it for No Dunks Today. There was

1745
01:27:53,120 --> 01:27:57,960
Speaker 1: some chitter chatter about us streaming the NBA Draft Lottery

1746
01:27:58,000 --> 01:28:03,280
Speaker 1: on Sunday afternoon. We'll see if that happens the afternoon. Yeah,

1747
01:28:03,280 --> 01:28:04,920
Speaker 1: on a Mother's Day, the afternoon. I thought it was

1748
01:28:04,960 --> 01:28:06,040
Speaker 1: a night event.

1749
01:28:06,520 --> 01:28:09,360
Speaker 2: It's like at three o'clock or something. Right, biggest Bulls

1750
01:28:09,360 --> 01:28:12,120
Speaker 2: game of the year, though, kind of feel like I

1751
01:28:12,120 --> 01:28:13,880
Speaker 2: got to tune in. I'm sure that's what Laura actually

1752
01:28:13,920 --> 01:28:16,320
Speaker 2: wants to do. What do you want to do for

1753
01:28:16,840 --> 01:28:19,599
Speaker 2: Mother's Day? Watched the Draft lottery right, totally?

1754
01:28:20,040 --> 01:28:23,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, So if floors up for it, now, if we

1755
01:28:23,720 --> 01:28:27,880
Speaker 1: decided to do it, join our YouTube. No Dunk's page

1756
01:28:27,920 --> 01:28:31,760
Speaker 1: will be streaming for that half hour of glory for

1757
01:28:31,840 --> 01:28:34,680
Speaker 1: some teams. I cann't believe Vince Carter is going to

1758
01:28:34,720 --> 01:28:37,600
Speaker 1: be the Brooklyn Nets representative. I just find that that.

1759
01:28:37,640 --> 01:28:39,840
Speaker 2: Was surprising to me. Yeah, he's the nuts. I saw

1760
01:28:39,880 --> 01:28:43,760
Speaker 2: the Bulls have coup coach. Hopefully he has good luck.

1761
01:28:44,680 --> 01:28:47,559
Speaker 1: Any predictions for tonight, even though you think that the

1762
01:28:47,600 --> 01:28:49,120
Speaker 1: Knicks should be favored.

1763
01:28:48,840 --> 01:28:50,599
Speaker 2: I do think the Nicks should be favored. Hopefully it's

1764
01:28:50,640 --> 01:28:54,840
Speaker 2: a nice tight game though, But I'm super interested in Minnesota.

1765
01:28:55,200 --> 01:28:59,360
Speaker 2: San Antonio first game in Minnesota. That feels like it's

1766
01:28:59,400 --> 01:29:01,000
Speaker 2: going to be a banger.

1767
01:29:01,320 --> 01:29:05,320
Speaker 1: Yes, it'll be a loud one too. All right, maybe

1768
01:29:05,320 --> 01:29:07,839
Speaker 1: we'll see a Sunday, but we'll definitely be back Monday.

1769
01:29:08,040 --> 01:29:10,520
Speaker 1: But for now, Clipper Bros, you heard it here first.

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01:29:10,439 --> 01:29:13,760
Speaker 2: Have a great time, turn up, Love you guys awesome.

1771
01:29:13,720 --> 01:29:18,439
Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us, And in the words of Anthony Edwards, mom,

1772
01:29:18,640 --> 01:29:20,680
Speaker 1: a hardhead makes a soft.

1773
01:29:20,400 --> 01:29:24,000
Speaker 2: Ass, embrace the other people.

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01:29:24,439 --> 01:29:28,120
Speaker 1: That's the line.